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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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Ian Lancaster Fleming
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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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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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I'm getting very sorry for the Devil and his disciples such as the good Le Chiffre. The devil has a rotten time and I always like to be on the side of the underdog. We don't give the poor chap a chance...the Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography.
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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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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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Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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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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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
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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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Unfortunately most ways of making big money take a long time. By the time one has made the money one is too old to enjoy it.
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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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