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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
Author
Journalist
Novelist
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Sailor
Screenwriter
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Mayfair
London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
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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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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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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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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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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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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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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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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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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
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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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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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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
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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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