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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
Implacable
Beware
Enemy

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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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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 want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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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 have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.
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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 know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting.
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The really disturbing thing about Somalia is that in a country where there are few economic opportunities, pirates are perceived as glamorous and are held in awe by young boys who aspire to their lifestyle.
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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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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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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 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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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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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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You know that feeling when you finish a final exam and you think, 'I never want to do that again'? Well I have the same feeling when I finish a novel. Each time I say, 'I think I may retire now' and then after six months the ideas start to churn again. I could never stop.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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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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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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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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