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‘Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: “Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it’s enemy action.”’
Was there any person in the world who wasn’t somehow, perhaps only statistically, involved in killing his neighbour?
Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big – bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.
‘Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.’
#pws
Saint Augustine: ‘Oh Lord, give me Chastity. But don’t give it yet!’
Bond remembered the dictum of the pros: ‘It’s never too early to start winning.’
#pws
Bond knew it wasn’t. It was always too early to start losing.
‘The safest way to double your money is fold it twice and put it in your pocket.’
Their eyes met and exchanged a flurry of masculine/feminine master/slave signals.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.”
That you have no choice about your birth, but you can choose the way you die?
Those terms included putting Oddjob and any other Korean firmly in his place, which, in Bond’s estimation, was rather lower than apes in the mammalian hierarchy.
‘After getting us into them.’ Bond looked thoughtfully at the girl. He decided it would be ungallant to spank her, so to speak, on an empty stomach.
#pws
Bond came to the conclusion that Tilly Masterton was one of those girls whose hormones had got mixed up. He knew the type well and thought they and their male counterparts were a direct consequence of giving votes to women and ‘sex equality’. As a result of fifty 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.
