Ian Fleming quotes from a selection of Spy Vibe contest entries (for eagle eyes, quotes are still unedited and unchecked): I have included my literary favorite, the opening to From a View To a Kill, at the top. Enjoy!
"The eyes behind the wide black rubber goggles were cold as
flint. In the howling speed-turmoil of a BSA M20 doing seventy, they were the
only quiet things in the hurtling flesh and metal. Protected by the glass of
the goggles, they stared fixedly ahead from just above the centre of the
handlebars, and their dark unwavering focus was that of gun muzzles."
"The scent and smoke
and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning."
“You only live twice. Once
when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
“Never say 'No'
to adventure. Always say 'Yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull
life.”
"She had a gay,
to-hell-with-you face that, Bond thought, would become animal in passion.
In bed she would fight and bite and then suddenly melt into hot
surrender. He could almost see the proud, sensual mouth bare away from
the even white teeth in a snarl of desire and then, afterwards, soften into a
half-pout of loving slavery."
"Mr Bond, they have a
saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time
it's enemy action'."
"I will not spend my
days in trying to prolong them. I will use my time."
"You are linked to
the ground mechanic's careless fingers in Nassau just as you are linked to the
weak head of the little man in the family saloon who mistakes the red light for
the green and meets you head-on, for the first and last time, as you are
motoring quietly home from some private sin."
"I write for warm-blooded
heterosexuals in railway trains, aeroplanes, and beds."
"It is better to
travel hopefully... than to arrive."
“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'.”
"They had got off
before nine and it was still cool as they crossed the mountains that run along
Jamaica's back like the central ridges of a crocodile's armour. The road wound
down towards the northern plains through some of the most beautiful scenery in
the world, the tropical vegetation changing with the altitude. The green flanks
of the uplands, all feathered with bamboo interspersed with the dark, glinting
green of the breadfruit and the sudden Bengal fire of Flame of the Forest, gave
way to the lower forests of ebony, mahogany, mahoe and logwood. And when they
reached the plains of Agualta Vale the green sea of sugar-cane and bananas
stretched away to where the distant fringe of glittering shrapnel bursts marked
the palm groves along the north coast."
"History is moving
pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing
parts."
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