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f5b8a3f	You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face	poetry philosophy james-bond haiku	Ian Fleming
d77e186	I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.	words poet	Ian Fleming
cafb802	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.		Ian Fleming
1ee0cbd	Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'.		Ian Fleming
d9a3dc7	Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.	principles	Ian Fleming
6be6721	Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.	good-and-evil patriotism	Ian Fleming
b2497a0	Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?		Ian Fleming
12805dd	Never say 'no' to adventures.		Ian Fleming
b9c428e	Mine's Bond - James Bond.	james-bond	Ian Fleming
f9671e7	All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.	james-bond mania	Ian Fleming
155940f	Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.		Ian Fleming
1005b11	A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?		Ian Fleming
795460d	It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.	men short trouble	Ian Fleming
759e68e	I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace	relationships quantum-of-solace	Ian Fleming
26b86c4	There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, w..	good the-devil	Ian Fleming
7fb4130	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.		Ian Fleming
5e1fba3	The World Is Not Enough		Ian Fleming
f2d56d2	Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.	solitude loneliness the-spy-who-loved-me james-bond	Ian Fleming
888461f	Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.		Ian Fleming
69ef10b	It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.		Ian Fleming
4a13dd8	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'.		Ian Fleming
c340a27	Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.		Ian Fleming
6f7495d	History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.	heroes history villain uncertainty hero villains	Ian Fleming
88a860b	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.	rape sex wtf	Ian Fleming
d677933	Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved a..		Ian Fleming
4c595ae	The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.		Ian Fleming
46f9e7d	Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.		Ian Fleming
66f44ab	Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.	hope	Ian Fleming
c9e37ed	The bitch is dead now.		Ian Fleming
214389b	Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.		Ian Fleming
14cc8f9	And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.		Ian Fleming
5eb28f2	Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.	bond relaxation danger	Ian Fleming
ae33b49	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.		Ian Fleming
a3ea9d5	Prohibition is the trigger of crime.	prohibition	Ian Fleming
0fdef6c	And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.		Ian Fleming
a03d8bb	I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn't care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn't care, because none of them would ever own him--own any larger piece of him than I now did.	romance love starcrossed	Ian Fleming
a7a2cae	They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.		Ian Fleming
39ddd62	His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.	pain migraine	Ian Fleming
dcefa7f	Women are often meticulous and safe drivers, but they are very seldom first-class. In general, Bond regarded them as a mild hazard and he always gave them plenty of road and was ready for the unpredictable. Four women in a car he regarded as the highest potential danger, and two women nearly as lethal. Women together cannot keep silent in a car, and when women talk they have to look into each other's faces. An exchange of words is not enoug..	james-bond	Ian Fleming
db29e0d	You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency."		Ian Fleming
2f0954f	Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.		Ian Fleming
32ca538	It reads better than it lives		Ian Fleming
08cbeb0	He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.		Ian Fleming
6f5ab35	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.		Ian Fleming

You only live twice: Once when you are born And once when you look death in the face

Ian Fleming

d77e186

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

words poet

Ian Fleming

cafb802

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.

Ian Fleming

1ee0cbd

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

Ian Fleming

d9a3dc7

Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.

principles

Ian Fleming

6be6721

Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

good-and-evil patriotism

Ian Fleming

b2497a0

Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils?

Ian Fleming

12805dd

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Ian Fleming

b9c428e

Mine's Bond - James Bond.

james-bond

Ian Fleming

f9671e7

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards thier goal. The great scientists, the philosophers, the religious leaders - all maniacs. What else but a blind singlenee of purpose could have given focus to thier genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose. Mania ... is as priceless as genius.

james-bond mania

Ian Fleming

155940f

Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.

Ian Fleming

1005b11

A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?

Ian Fleming

795460d

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

men short trouble

Ian Fleming

759e68e

I think it's the same with all the relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is alive or dead, then it's just no good. -- from Quantum of Solace

relationships quantum-of-solace

Ian Fleming

26b86c4

There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, w..

good the-devil

Ian Fleming

7fb4130

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.

Ian Fleming

5e1fba3

The World Is Not Enough

Ian Fleming

f2d56d2

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

solitude loneliness the-spy-who-loved-me james-bond

Ian Fleming

888461f

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

Ian Fleming

69ef10b

It's just that I'd rather die of drink than of thirst.

Ian Fleming

4a13dd8

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'.

Ian Fleming

c340a27

Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

Ian Fleming

6f7495d

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

heroes history villain uncertainty hero villains

Ian Fleming

88a860b

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.

rape sex wtf

Ian Fleming

d677933

Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved a..

Ian Fleming

4c595ae

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

Ian Fleming

46f9e7d

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

Ian Fleming

66f44ab

Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

hope

Ian Fleming

c9e37ed

The bitch is dead now.

Ian Fleming

214389b

Love of life is born of the awareness of death, of the dread of it.

Ian Fleming

14cc8f9

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

Ian Fleming

5eb28f2

Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.

bond relaxation danger

Ian Fleming

ae33b49

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.

Ian Fleming

a3ea9d5

Prohibition is the trigger of crime.

prohibition

Ian Fleming

0fdef6c

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

Ian Fleming

a03d8bb

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn't care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn't care, because none of them would ever own him--own any larger piece of him than I now did.

romance love starcrossed

Ian Fleming

a7a2cae

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

Ian Fleming

39ddd62

His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

pain migraine

Ian Fleming

dcefa7f

Women are often meticulous and safe drivers, but they are very seldom first-class. In general, Bond regarded them as a mild hazard and he always gave them plenty of road and was ready for the unpredictable. Four women in a car he regarded as the highest potential danger, and two women nearly as lethal. Women together cannot keep silent in a car, and when women talk they have to look into each other's faces. An exchange of words is not enoug..

james-bond

Ian Fleming

db29e0d

You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. "Huh," "hun," and "hi!" in their various modulations, together with "sure," "guess so," "that so?" and "nuts!" will meet almost any contingency."

Ian Fleming

2f0954f

Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God.

Ian Fleming

32ca538

It reads better than it lives

Ian Fleming

08cbeb0

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

Ian Fleming

6f5ab35

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.

Ian Fleming