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I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at

I would stay away from him and leave him to go his own road where there would be other women, countless other women, who would probably give him as much physical pleasure as he had had with me. I wouldn’t care, or at least I told myself that I wouldn’t care, because none of them would ever own him—own any larger piece of him than I now did.

Ian Fleming
Giving, Would Be, Pieces

The World Is Not Enough

Ian Fleming
World, Enough
Ian Fleming (1964). “On her Majesty's Secret Service”

Shaken and not stirred.

Ian Fleming
Classic
Dr. No ch. 14 (1958).

Englishmen are so odd. They are like a nest of Chinese boxes. It takes a very long time to get to the centre of them. When one gets there the result is unrewarding, but the process is instructive and entertaining.

Ian Fleming
Long, Chinese, Nests
Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

It reads better than it lives

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

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
Home, Men, Gossip
Ian Fleming (1953). “Casino Royale: A James Bond Novel”, Penguin Group USA

Writing about 2,000 words in three hours every morning, 'Casino Royale' dutifully produced itself. I wrote nothing and made no corrections until the book was finished. If I had looked back at what I had written the day before I might have despaired.

Ian Fleming
Morning, Book, Writing
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

And don't get hurt,' [Dexter] added. 'There's no one to help you up there. And don't go stirring up a lot of trouble for us. This case isn't ripe yet. Until it is, our policy with Mr Big is 'live and let live'.' Bond looked quizzically at Captain Dexter In my job,' he said, 'when I come up against a man like this one, I have another motto. It's 'live and let die'.

Ian Fleming
Hurt, Jobs, Men

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
Bored, Vices, Wake Up

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

Ian Fleming
Dark, Sunshine, Actors
Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”

Diamonds are forever.

Ian Fleming
Forever, Diamond
Ian Fleming (2015). “The Diamond Smugglers”, New Canadian Library

She explained to me later that she must have been possessed by a subconscious desire to be raped. Well she found me in the mountains and she was raped - by me.

Ian Fleming
Desire, Mountain, Found
Ian Fleming (1963). “ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE”

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