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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.
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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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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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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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Everything I write has a precedent in truth.
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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 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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It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst.
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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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Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
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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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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.
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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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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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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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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.
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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.
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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.
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