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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.

Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Sailor
Screenwriter
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London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
Indifference
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Woman
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