Ian Fleming's Death

The novelist Ian Fleming died at the age of 56. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

British author who created the famous James Bond spy novels. He sold over 30 million books during his lifetime, and his James Bond series inspired a popular film franchise.

He was the son of Evelyn St Croix Rose and Parliament member Valentine Fleming. He married Ann Geraldine Charteris in 1952, and the couple became parents to a son named Caspar.

Quotes

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“Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time.” (Ian Fleming)

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“Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.” (Ian Fleming)

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“One of the bibles of my youth was ‘Birds of the West Indies,’ by James Bond, a well-known ornithologist, and when I was casting about for a name for my protagonist I thought, ‘My God, that’s the dullest name I’ve ever heard,’ so I appropriated it. Now the dullest name in the world has become an exciting one.” (Ian Fleming)

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“A woman should be an illusion.” (Ian Fleming)

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“You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.” (Ian Fleming)