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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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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
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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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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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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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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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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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He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.
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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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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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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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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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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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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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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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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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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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