Ian Fleming Quotes

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• Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

  Ian Fleming

  Breakfast, Never Lose Hope, Plenty

  Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

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• Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

  Ian Fleming

  Witty, Humorous, Destiny

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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.

  Ian Fleming

  Simple, Recipes, Pages

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• Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

  Ian Fleming

  Worry, Disaster, Dues

  Ian Fleming (1964). “On her Majesty's Secret Service”

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

  Ian Fleming

  Motivational, Witty, Time

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice: James Bond 007”, p.273, Random House

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• Never say 'no' to adventures.

  Ian Fleming

  Adventure

  Ian Fleming (2012). “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, p.76, Pan Macmillan

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

  Ian Fleming

  Moving, Hero, Villain

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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• You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

  Ian Fleming

  Death, Looks, Faces

  Ian Fleming (2012). “You Only Live Twice”, Random House

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• 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.

  Ian Fleming

  Religious, Men, Goal

  "Dr. No". Book by Ian Fleming, ch. 15: Pandora's Box, 1958.

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

  Ian Fleming

  Loss, Gains, Loser

  Ian Fleming (1955). “Moonraker”, Penguin Group USA

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

  Ian Fleming

  Drink, Thirst, Dies

  IAN FLEMING (1961). “THUNDERBALL”

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

  Ian Fleming

  Sex, Thinking, May

  Quoted in John Pearson, The Life of Ian Fleming (1966)

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• Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

  Ian Fleming

  Loneliness, Solitude, Lovers

  Ian Fleming (2012). “The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007”, p.5, Random House

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• I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

  Ian Fleming

  Writing, Looks, Asks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened... when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.

  Ian Fleming

  Men, Names, Dull

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• Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.

  Ian Fleming

  Pockets, Revolver, Resignation

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”, Cape. J.

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

  Ian Fleming

  Fighting, Principles, Easier

  Ian Fleming (2002). “Casino Royale”

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• As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.

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  Sex, Confused, Men

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

  Ian Fleming

  Love Life, Life Is, Awareness

  Ian Fleming (1962). “The Spy who Loved Me”

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• As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.

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  Sex, Mean, Violence

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• 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.

  Ian Fleming

  Moving, Hero, Fighting

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

  Ian Fleming

  Waiting, Genius, Ifs

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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.

  Ian Fleming

  Long, Way, Made

  Ian Fleming (1962). “Goldfinger”

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• A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.

  Ian Fleming

  Indifference

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• I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

  Ian Fleming

  Iron, Long, Drunk

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