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Let it simply be said that we know more about the details of the hours immediately before and the actual death of Jesus, in and near Jerusalem, than we know about the death of any other one man in all the ancient world.
Wilbur Smith
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Wilbur Smith
Age: 91
Born: 1933
Born: January 9
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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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People don't really know themselves until they're 30. Like most people nowadays, I went to university, got a degree and wandered for a bit. I trained to be a chartered accountant, which I didn't much enjoy, and it was only slowly that the idea of becoming a creative writer gelled.
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What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you.
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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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They do say that socialism is the ideal philosophy-just as long as you have capitalists to pay for it.
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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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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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beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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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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There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success.
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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 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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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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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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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 think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.
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I want to be seen as a good storyteller. I'm a manipulator as well.
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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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