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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
Rivers
History
Ends
Today
Never
Fountainhead
River

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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 put my soul into every book I write.
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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 love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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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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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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My family wasn't terribly affluent and looked upon money very carefully as something that had to be saved, not spent. My father built the ducting that took air into the copper mines and made about 6 d a yard in the Thirties, which was good money back then.
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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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All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk.
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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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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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Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome.
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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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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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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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