British - Author | May 28, 1908 - August 12, 1964
A woman should be an illusion.
Ian Fleming
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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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I don't regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
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I'm not in the Shakespeare stakes. I have no ambition.
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As for sex, well, I mean sex is a perfectly respectable subject as far as Shakespeare is concerned. I mean, all history is love and violence.
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It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date..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.
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Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.
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Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas.
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