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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.

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
Novelist
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Screenwriter
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Mayfair
London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
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Girl
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Forty
Money
Anyway
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Girls
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