Quote by Wilbur Smith
My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word

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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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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Im not a good father and theyre 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. – Wilbur Smith

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Nothing you wear is more important than your smile. – Connie Stevens

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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities. – Herman Melville

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A smile cures the wounding of a frown. – William Shakespeare

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Just because a situation is grim doesnt mean you dont have every right to smile. – Rashida Jones

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Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come. – Chinese Proverb

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