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1. "Just as, at least in one religion, accidia is the first of the cardinal sins, so bordom, and particularly the incredible circumstance of waking up bored, was the only vice Bond utterly condemned." ~ Ian Fleming

2. "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

3. "For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with." ~ Ian Fleming

4. "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

5. "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, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuition." ~ Ian Fleming

6. "Hm,' said Bond. 'Bogeyman stuff." ~ Ian Fleming

7. "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." ~ Ian Fleming

8. "Bond liked fast cars and he liked driving them. Most American cars bored him. ... All the fun of driving had been taken out of them with the abolition of a gear-change... All effort had been smoothed away and all of that close contact with the machine and the road that extracts skill and nerve from the European driver." ~ Ian Fleming

9. "Her breasts were showing and Mr. Player, who was a very strong Quaker, didn't think that was quite proper." ~ Ian Fleming

10. "Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again." ~ Ian Fleming

11. "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" ~ Ian Fleming

12. "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." ~ Ian Fleming

13. "A woman should be an illusion." ~ Ian Fleming

14. "You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face." ~ Ian Fleming

15. "Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time." ~ Ian Fleming

16. "Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch." ~ Ian Fleming

17. "Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life." ~ Ian Fleming

18. "This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts." ~ Ian Fleming

19. "Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust." ~ Ian Fleming

20. "Prohibition is the trigger of crime." ~ Ian Fleming

21. "Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and 'sex equality.' As a result of fifty 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--barren and full of frustrations, the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. He was sorry for them, but he had no time for them." ~ Ian Fleming

22. "I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well-made. I hate small portions do anything, particularly when they taste bad." ~ Ian Fleming

23. "If you fail at the large things it means you have not large ambitions. Concentration, focus - that is all. The aptitudes come, the tools forge themselves." ~ Ian Fleming

24. "Was it true what The Big Man had said, that she would have nothing to do with men? He doubted it. She seemed open to love and to desire. At any rate he knew she was not closed to him. He wanted her to come back and sit down opposite him again so that he could look at her and play with her and slowly discover her. Solitaire. It was an attractive name. No wonder they had christened her that in the sleazy nightclubs of Port au Prince. Even in her present promise of warmth towards him there was much that was withdrawn and mysterious." ~ Ian Fleming

25. "Danger, like a third man, was standing in the room." ~ Ian Fleming

26. "Mine's Bond – James Bond." ~ Ian Fleming

27. "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

28. "The World Is Not Enough" ~ Ian Fleming

29. "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

30. "Follow your fate, and be satisfied with it, and be glad not to be a second-hand motor salesman, or a yellow-press journalist, pickled in gin and nicotine, or a cripple - or dead." ~ Ian Fleming

31. "The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser." ~ Ian Fleming

32. "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

33. "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

34. "And then one day when you're playing your little game you'll suddenly find yourself pinned down like a butterfly." ~ Ian Fleming

35. "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

36. "What's your name?""Bond. James Bond. What's yours?"She reflected "Rider.""What Rider?""Honeychile."Bond smiled." ~ Ian Fleming

37. "Look my friend, I've got to commit a murder tonight. Not you. Me. So be a good chap and stuff it, would you?" ~ Ian Fleming

38. "For, or so they whispered, she would take the camp-stool and draw it up close below the face of the man or woman that hung down over the edge of the interrogation table. Then she would squat down on the stool and and look into the face and quietly say 'No. 1' or 'No. 10' or 'No. 25' and the inquisitors would know what she meant and they would begin. And she would watch the eyes in the face a few inches away from hers and breathe in the screams as if they were perfume." ~ Ian Fleming

39. "Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due." ~ Ian Fleming

40. "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" ~ Ian Fleming

41. "Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it." ~ Ian Fleming

42. "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action." ~ Ian Fleming

43. "A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle." ~ Ian Fleming

44. "Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas." ~ Ian Fleming

45. "I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition." ~ Ian Fleming

46. "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." ~ Ian Fleming

47. "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." ~ Ian Fleming

48. "Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career." ~ Ian Fleming

49. "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." ~ Ian Fleming

50. "And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger." ~ Ian Fleming

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