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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

Ian Fleming

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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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Prosaist
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Mayfair
London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.
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Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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A woman should be an illusion
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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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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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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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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
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Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.
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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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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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