{"author":"Ian Fleming","author_id":"Ian+Fleming","total_quotes":57,"quotes":[{"text":"Above all, he liked it that everything was one's own fault. There was only oneself to praise or blame. Luck was a servant and not a master. Luck had to be accepted with a shrug or taken advantage of up to the hilt. But it had to be understood and recognized for what it was and not confused with a faulty appreciation of the odds, for, at gambling, the deadly sin is to mistake bad play for bad luck. And luck in all its moods had to be loved and not feared.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["luck"],"id":1938,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["live","born","you "],"id":11246,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"There's a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there's no Evil Book about how to be evil and how to be bad. The Devil had no prophets to write his Ten Commandments, and no team of authors to write his biography. His case has gone completely by default. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters. He has no book from which we can learn the nature of evil in all its forms, with parables about evil people, proverbs about evil people, folklore about evil people. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuition.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["evil","good","the-devil"],"id":19055,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more bed, then less bed, then the boredom, the tears and the final bitterness--was to him shameful and hypocritical.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["relationships"],"id":23399,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["changing","hero","heroes","history","uncertainty","villain","villains"],"id":24053,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["beauty","golf","insightful"],"id":27481,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"In the centre of Bond was a hurricane-room, the kind of citadel found in old-fashioned houses in the tropics. These rooms are small, strongly built cells in the heart of the house, in the middle of the ground floor and sometimes dug down into its foundations. To this cell the owner and his family retire if the storm threatens to destroy the house, and they stay there until the danger is past. Bond went to his hurricane room only when the situation was beyond his control and no other possible action could be taken. Now he retired to this citadel, closed his mind to the hell of noise and violent movement, and focused on a single stitch in the back of the seat in front of him, waiting with slackened nerves for whatever fate had decided for B. E. A. Flight No. 130.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["danger","fate","flying","hurricane-room","plane","safety"],"id":34463,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"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.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["men","confused","not knowing "],"id":35134,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["time","best","think "],"id":39242,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"},{"text":"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 Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.","author":"Ian Fleming","tags":["evolution","good-and-evil","patriotism"],"id":46970,"author_id":"Ian+Fleming"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":57,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}