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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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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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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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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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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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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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A woman should be an illusion
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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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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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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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 am a poet in deeds--not often in words.
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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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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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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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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.
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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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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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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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