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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.

Ian Fleming
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Ian Fleming's Popular Quotes

Worry is a dividend paid to disaster before it is due

- Ian Fleming

It reads better than it lives

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The gain to the winner is always less than the loss to the loser.

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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.

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Never say 'no' to adventures.

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Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.

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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 Co…

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Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it.

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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

- Ian Fleming
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