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Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

Ian Fleming

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Ian Fleming
Age: 55 †
Born: 1908
Born: December 28
Died: 1964
Died: August 12
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Sailor
Screenwriter
Writer
Mayfair
London
Ian Lancaster Fleming
Hope
Makes
Good
Breakfast
Plenty

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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.
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If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
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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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