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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
Ian Fleming
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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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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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He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.
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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. Huh, hun, and hi! in their various modulations, together with sure, guess so, that so? and nuts! will meet almost any contingency.
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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
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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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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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A woman should be an illusion
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
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Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned.
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