Ian Fleming

Ian Fleming

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate May 28, 1908

Zodiac Gemini

Location London, London

Country England

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Ian Fleming Quotes

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

Tags: humor short trouble

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

Tags: obsession

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.

Tags: evolution patriotism

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

Tags: survival

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'.

Tags: meditation

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

Tags: luck

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.

Tags: luck

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.

Tags: bond boredom

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

Tags: bond danger relaxation

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

Tags: principles

You only live twice:

Once when you're born

And once when you look death in the face.

Tags: death philosophy poetry

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.

Tags: relationships

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