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The World Is Not Enough

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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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London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
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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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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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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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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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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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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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Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.
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Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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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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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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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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