QUOTES by Ian Fleming
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"In his particular line of business, peace had reigned for nearly a year. And peace was killing him."
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"You start to die the moment you are born. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. So take it easy."
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"Who is this man?' 'Chinaman, or rather half Chinese and half German. Got a daft name. Calls himself Doctor No - Doctor Julius No.' 'No? Spelt like Yes?' 'That's right."
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"Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool."
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"Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?"
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"'Those who deserve to die, he paused, 'die the death they deserve' " - Mr Big"
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"When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts."
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"What's your name?" "Bond. James Bond. What's yours?" She reflected "Rider." "What Rider?" "Honeychile." Bond smiled."
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"Bond sat for a moment frozen to his chair. Suddenly, there flashed unwanted into his mind that most sinister line in poetry: 'They reckon ill who leave me out. When me they fly, I am the wings."
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"The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres."
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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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"I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions do anything, particularly when they taste bad."
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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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"In their talk there was nothing but companionship with a distant undertone of passion. In the background there was the unspoken zest of the promise which, in due course and in their own time, would be met."
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"Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.' He laughed. 'But don't let me down and become human yourself. We would lose such a wonderful machine."
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"She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me."
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"His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there."
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"He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession."
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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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"He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success."
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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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"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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"All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful."
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"Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other."
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"History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts."
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