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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.
Wilbur Smith
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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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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 want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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 read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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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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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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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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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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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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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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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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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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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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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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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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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'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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I'm not a prophet I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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