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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
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Broken Hill
Wilbur Addison Smith
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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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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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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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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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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 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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History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.
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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background.
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I put my soul into every book I write.
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I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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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My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.
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Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.
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