Quote by Wilbur Smith
The first novel I wrote was a monster - clocking in at 180,000 wor

The first novel I wrote was a monster – clocking in at 180,000 words – but it died a death, a death it deserved. It was called The Gods First Make Mad. It was a good title, but it was the only good thing about the book. I didnt let that put me off. – Wilbur Smith

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Im 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. – Wilbur Smith

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Future
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My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye. – Wilbur Smith

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smile
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I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldnt want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith – Ive had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe Id like to be J. K. Rowling, but Ill settle for second best. – Wilbur Smith

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Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. – Hesiod

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Death

Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising. – Plautus

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Death

Death is softer by far than tyranny. – Aeschylus

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Death

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour. – Bertrand Russell

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Death

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Limited in his nature, infinite in his desire, man is a fallen god who remembers heaven. – Alphonse de Lamartine

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I loved the travel but I didnt love the work. I mean, come on, modelling is only so stimulating! – Brooklyn Decker

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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. – Evelyn Waugh

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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough. – Tom Hiddleston

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