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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
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Journalist
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Ian Lancaster Fleming
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Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.
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...Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.
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Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
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Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.
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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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