You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
IAN FLEMING, You Only Live Twice
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
What happens is that, as with drugs, he needs a stronger shot each time, and women are just women. The consumption of one woman is the consumption of all. You can’t double the dose.
IAN FLEMING, John Pearson's The Life of Ian Fleming
Goldfinger could not have known that high tension was Bond's natural way of life and that pressure and danger relaxed him.
IAN FLEMING, Goldfinger
Las Vegas seemed to have invented a new school of functional architecture, "The Gilded Mousetrap School" he thought it might be called, whose main purpose was to channel the customer-mouse into the central gambling trap whether he wanted the cheese or not.
IAN FLEMING, Diamonds Are Forever
IAN FLEMING, Diamonds Are Forever
Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles.
IAN FLEMING, Casino Royale
The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman -- a matter of millimetres.
IAN FLEMING, Goldfinger
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