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Ian Fleming quotes

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“History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Everyone has the revolver of resignation in his pocket.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“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.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Tears of forlornness and self-pity welled out of his eyes.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“He saw her now only as a spy. Their love and his grief were relegated to the boxroom of his mind. Later, perhaps they would be dragged out, dispassionately examined, and then bitterly thrust back with other sentimental baggage he would rather forget.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“These blithering women who thought they could do a man's work. Why the hell couldn't they stay at home and mind their pots and pans and stick to their frocks and gossip and leave men's work to the men.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“He cursed himself and cursed the hubris which had made him so sure the battle was won and the enemy in flight.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Bond didn't defend the practice. He simply maintained that the more effort and ingenuity you put into gambling, the more you took out.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“When she had failed once or twice to respond to some conversational gambit or other, Bond also relapsed into silence and occupied himself with his own gloomy thoughts.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Mine's Bond - James Bond.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“For an hour in that room with Le Chiffre the certainty of impotence had been beaten into him and a scar had been left on his mind that could only be healed by experience.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“I hate small portions of anything, particularly when they taste bad.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and revolt from it.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“He always knew when his body or his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. This helped him to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Bond guessed that hair covered most of his squat body. Naked, Bond supposed, he would be an obscene object.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“the beginning of torture is the worst. There is a parabola of agony. A crescendo leading up to a peak and then the nerves are blunted and react progressively less until unconsciousness and death.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“For the first time since his capture, fear came to Bond and crawled up his spine.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“In his mind he fingered the necklace of the days to come.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale
“The trouble always is . . . not how to get enough caviar, but how to get enough toast with it.” Ian Fleming, Casino Royale

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