He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession. Ian Fleming More Quotes by Ian Fleming More Quotes From Ian Fleming As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied. Ian Fleming confused men sex I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much. Ian Fleming iron drunk long All women love semi-rape. They love to be taken.It was his sweet brutality against my bruised body that made his act of love so piercingly wonderful. Ian Fleming brutality taken sweet Surround yourself with human beings, my dear James. They are easier to fight for than principles. Ian Fleming easier fighting principles If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks. Ian Fleming self writing book Older women are best because they always think they may be doing it for the last time. Ian Fleming may sex thinking But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'. Ian Fleming tombstone heart father Hope makes a good breakfast. Eat plenty of it. Ian Fleming never-lose-hope plenty breakfast It's no good protecting people or even looking after them past a certain point. One can't grasp more than a piece of anyone. Most of the rest can only be protected by themselves and the remainder by hired specialists and doctors and dentists and professional protectors. Ian Fleming doctors people past It’s just that I’d rather die of drink than of thirst. Ian Fleming thirst drink dies I am a poet in deeds--not often in words. Ian Fleming deeds-and-words poet deeds Smoking I find the most ridiculous of all the varieties of human behavior and practically the only one that is entirely against nature. Can you imagine a cow or any animal taking a mouthful of smoldering straw then breathing in the smoke and blowing it out through its nostrils? Ian Fleming breathing smoking animal A medium Vodka dry Martini - with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken and not stirred. Ian Fleming martini vodka dry Like all harsh, cold men, he was easily tipped over into sentiment. Ian Fleming harsh cold men Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time. Ian Fleming waste might jobs At gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. Ian Fleming gambling play mistake Bond reflected that good Americans were fine people and that most of them seemed to come from Texas. Ian Fleming casino-royale texas people A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ... Just a moment. 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. Got it? Ian Fleming ice three add A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. Ian Fleming indifference He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success. Ian Fleming shoulders pleasure pain
