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I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
Wilbur Smith
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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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Wilbur Addison Smith
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I'm not a good father and they're not children any more the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
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It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.
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I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am.
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Cape Town's beaches are superb and while the water on the Atlantic side is damn cold, it's very pleasant on the other side. Bring your golf clubs if you play - Cape Town has some fabulous golf courses.
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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books.
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A cynic had defined aid as simply the system by which poor white people in rich countries gave money to rich black people in poor countries to put into Swiss bank accounts.
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Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.
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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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At the age of 12 I won the school prize for Best English Essay. The prize was a copy of Somerset Maugham's 'Introduction To Modern English And American Literature.' To this day I keep it on the shelf between my collection of Forester's works and the little urn that contains my mother's ashes.
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I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.
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I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness.
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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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The best cure for racism is to have somebody shoot at you. Man, it does not matter then what color the arse is that comes to save yours-black or white, you're ready to give it a big fat kiss.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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I put my soul into every book I write.
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I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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I go on a hunting safari at least once a year to Botswana, which is fantastic because we have a huge area of wilderness entirely to ourselves. My island covers roughly 55 acres, which again I have to myself, with nearly half a kilometre of private beach with my own jetties and boats.
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When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss.
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