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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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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 gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.
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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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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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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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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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A woman should be an illusion
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A woman can put up with almost anything anything but indifference.
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Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.
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Never say 'no' to adventures.
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You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. Huh, hun, and hi! in their various modulations, together with sure, guess so, that so? and nuts! will meet almost any contingency.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.
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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
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The World Is Not Enough
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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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Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.
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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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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 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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