Ian Fleming Short Quotes

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

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At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck.

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They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

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And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.

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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.

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Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

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Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.

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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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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

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The licence to kill for the Secret Service, the double-0 prefix, was a great honour.

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

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History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

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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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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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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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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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There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page.

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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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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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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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The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same difference between a beautiful and a plain woman - a matter of millimetres.

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He sat down next door in the seat she had left and watched the grim suburbs of Philadelphia showing their sores, like beggars, to the rich train.

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And I would like a medium Vodka dry Martini — with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred, please. I would prefer Russian or Polish vodka.

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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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People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

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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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