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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.

Wilbur Smith

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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
Mathematician
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
Litigation
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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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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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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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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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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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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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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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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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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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 think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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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 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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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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I put my soul into every book I write.
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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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