Ian Fleming - Time Quotes

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times, it's enemy action.

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Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action.'

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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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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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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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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

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Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

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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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