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

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  Thinking, People, Prison

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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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  Pain, Pleasure, Shoulders

  Ian Fleming (1965). “More gilt-edged Bonds”

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• I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.

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  Book, Writing, Agony

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• 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.

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  Nuts, America, Together

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

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• Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

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  Children, Men, Childhood

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

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• 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 and not feared

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  Love, Appreciation, Mistake

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• It reads better than it lives

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  Ian Fleming (1982). “Diamonds Are Forever”, Berkley

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• A gentleman's choice of timepiece says as much about him as does his Saville Row suit.

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  Choices, Gentleman, Suits

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• A woman should be an illusion

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  Women, Maturity, Illusion

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued. But he was honest enough to admit that he had never yet been made to suffer by cards or by women. One day, and he accepted the fact he would be brought to his knees by love or by luck.

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  Love, Luck, Suffering

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• Mine’s Bond – James Bond.

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  Mines

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• He provides a vision. He often reminds countries of their responsibilities in a way that makes it seem not only like a legal obligation but a moral responsibility.

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  Country, Responsibility, Vision

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• Luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared. Bond saw luck as a woman, to be softly wooed or brutally ravaged, never pandered to or pursued.

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  Luck, Saws, Mood

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

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• The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.

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  Kissing, Hands, Boredom

  Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale”

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• People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.

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  Eggs, People, Doe

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• He could not just wear a watch. It had to be a Rolex.

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  Watches, Rolex

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• I take a ridiculous pleasure in what I eat and drink. It comes partly from being a bachelor, but mostly from a habit of taking a lot of trouble over details. It's very persnickety and old-maidish really, but then when I'm working I generally have to eat my meals alone and it makes them more interesting when one takes trouble.

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  Interesting, Details, Meals

  "How to make James Bond relevant - make him battle Trump and the oligarchs" by Paul Mason, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2016.

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• One of the bibles of my youth was 'Birds of the West Indies,' by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, 'My God, that's the dullest name I've ever heard,' so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.

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  West Indies, Names, Bird

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• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

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  Funny, Birthday, Meaningful

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• I'm looking for Commander James Bond, not an overgrown stunt man. [on meeting Sean Connery]

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  Men, Meetings, Sean

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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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  Relaxation, Way, Pressure

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

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• I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.

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  Ambition, Stakes

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• 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.

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  Girl, Hurt, Men

  Ian Fleming (1965). “More gilt-edged Bonds”

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

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  People, Obsession, Blind

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

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• Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which foolishly I have helped to destroy, he was creating a norm of badness by which, and by which alone, an opposite norm of goodness could exist. We were privileged, in our short knowledge of him, to see and estimate his wickedness and we emerge from the acquaintanceship better and more virtuous men.

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  Men, Creating, Evil

  "Casino Royale". Book by Ian Fleming, Ch. 20: "The Nature Of Evil", 1953.

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