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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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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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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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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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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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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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And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly.
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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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A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
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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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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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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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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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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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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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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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