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• If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

  Ian Fleming

  Book, Writing, Self

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• He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

  Ian Fleming

  Secret, Details, Attention

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

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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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  Gambling, Practice, Effort

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

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• 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

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  Kindness, Men, Thinking

  Ian Fleming (2012). “For Your Eyes Only”, Vintage Digital

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

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  Alive, Want, Said

  Ian Fleming (2002). “Moonraker”

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

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  Deeds And Words, Deeds, Poet

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• Everything I write has a precedent in truth.

  Ian Fleming

  Writing, Precedent

  "TV highlights 12/02/2014" by Jonathan Wright, John Robinson, Rachel Aroesti, David Stubbs, Luke Holland, Bim Adewunmi, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2014.

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• A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred.

  Ian Fleming

  Dry, Vodka, Martini

  Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

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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.

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  Iron, Long, Drunk

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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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  Butterfly, Games, Finding Yourself

  IAN FLEMING (1954). “LIVE AND LET DIE”

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

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  Two, People, Together

  Ian Fleming (1973). “A James Bond omnibus: containing Live and let die, Diamonds are forever, Dr No”, Jonathan Cape

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

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  Mistake, Play, Gambling

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

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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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  Father, Tombstone, Heart

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

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• It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors.

  Ian Fleming

  Past, Doctors, People

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• It was the same with the whole Russian machine. Fear was the impulse. For them it was always safer to advance than retreat. Advance against the enemy and the bullet might miss you. Retreat, evade, betray and the bullet would never miss.

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  Missing, Enemy, Might

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

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

  Ian Fleming

  Jobs, Might, Waste

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

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• The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning.

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  Morning, Sweat, Three

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

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

  Ian Fleming

  Men, World, Trouble

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• 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?

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  Animal, Breathing, Smoking

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• 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?

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  Ice, Add, Three

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

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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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  Sweet, Taken, Brutality

  Ian Fleming (2012). “The Spy Who Loved Me: James Bond 007”, p.189, Random House

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

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  Women, Light, Want

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

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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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  Texas, People, Casino Royale

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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

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  Men, Cold, Harsh

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

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• I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.

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  Hero, Doe, Way

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