Unless she married soon, Bond thought for the hundredth time, or had a lover, her cool air of authority might easily become spinsterish and she would join the army of women who had married a career.

Ian Fleming

Tags: women marriage careers career-women



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Champagne and Benzedrine! Never again.

Ian Fleming

Tags: drugs drinking champagne



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There might be cheats or possible cheats amongst them, men who beat their wives, men with perverse instincts, greedy men, cowardly men, lying men; but the elegance of the room invested each one with a kind of aristocracy.

Ian Fleming

Tags: elegance cards aristocracy cheaters



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His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

Ian Fleming

Tags: pain headache migraine



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Shooting hell out of a piece of cardboard doesn't prove anything' was his single-line introduction to the Small-arms Defence Manual.

Ian Fleming

Tags: guns skill



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There was no sign of life round the domed emplacement of the Moonraker, and the concrete, already beginning to shimmer in the early morning sun, stretched emptily away towards Deal. It looked like a newly laid aerodome or rather, he thought, with its three disparate concrete 'things', the beehive dome,the flat-iron blast-wall, and the distant cube of the firing point, each casting black pools of shadow towards him in the early sun, like a Dali desert landscape in which three objets trouves reposed at carefully calculated random.

Ian Fleming

Tags: art weapon dali missile



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Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked into his ear that he had been a blind fool.

Ian Fleming

Tags: guilt anger foolishness regret folly



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In angry protest the red telephone splintered the silence.

Ian Fleming

Tags: silence telephone



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Outside the bus the smell of sulphur hit Bond with sickening force. It was a horrible smell, from somewhere down in the stomach of the world.

Ian Fleming

Tags: earth smell sulphur



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The first thing he noticed was that 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

Tags: las-vegas gambling traps



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