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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
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London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
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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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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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I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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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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Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due
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He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
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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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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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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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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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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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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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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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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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