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Litigation only makes lawyers fat.
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I put my soul into every book I write.
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Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on
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There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not!
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They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am.
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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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The tranquilizers he had been given had worn off, leaving him with a drug hangover and a bitter grudge against the entire world.
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The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation.
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isn't that great!' But the
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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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My absolute favorite pieces are 'Rhapsody in Blue' and 'Begin the Beguine.' I play these when I am working.
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Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds.
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wisdom of the outdoors, until
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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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Every one of them was armed, every one a trained soldier who had killed and would not hesitate to kill again.
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They were built up to great expectations, and when these could not be met, they turned against those who made the promises.
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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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You don't turn out as many books as I did then by sitting around, being cozy with the family.
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He mad no moral judgements. He accepted mankind as he found it, and looked for the profit to be made from its strengths or weaknesses.
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Duplicity thy name is woman!
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More than weapons, we need a leader.
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Mr. Tyler, drop the anchor. We are as close
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Enough, I can say no more.
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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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Real men read my books.
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but death is the ultimate purpose of life.
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Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible.
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It's not the dying but the manner of it.
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chariots that I would design with
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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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We have worked all day to tidy the mess you have made.
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To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet.
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they chewed on the cud.
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There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As
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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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Beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.
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If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed.
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we arrived at the army's main encampment all
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Happiness cannot last, he thought. It is too intense.
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You're too old for this type of living,' he told
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Fly for me, Bird of the Sun.
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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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It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
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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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I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
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I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
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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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Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble?
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My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me.
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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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attempt to escape,
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