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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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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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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 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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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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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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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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But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.
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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
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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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Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
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Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?
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