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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
Manipulator
Storyteller
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I don't want children. Why should I let some strange little monster into my life to destroy what to me is a perfect set-up?
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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
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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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Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
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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.
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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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Usually halfway through a book I have a serious depression, so I go on safari on my ranch in South Africa, or fishing off my island in the Seychelles. When I come back and re-read it, I think: 'What was all that about, Smith? It's fine, just get on with it.'
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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 know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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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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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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Politicians all over the world cater to domestic vote banks. They will spend only on what their constituents want. So unless there is a grass root green movement in a nation the politicians will not be willing to spend money on curbing emissions. More awareness is needed amongst the people to effect the real change in how governments spend.
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Herbert, my father, was born in Britain but went out to Africa in his teens to join his father and built up an 18,000-acre ranch in what was then Northern Rhodesia, providing work for the locals. He was my hero when I was a boy.
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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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Quite frankly, I think political correctness is the worst form of censorship. You're not allowed to speak your mind unless you're black, or unless you're a terrorist, or unless you're an Arab or a minority people. Then you can say what you like. But if you are like a lot of us you are not supposed to say certain things.
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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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