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What is your favorite quote or passage?


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#1 SirMiles83

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Posted 05 February 2004 - 05:55 AM

So what is your favorite quote and/or passage from Fleming's Bond novels? There are so many time when reading his work where I sit back and just think that the man was a poet! Be it a humorous line, an insightly commentary or just an intense, suspenseful passage, which one is your favorite to read?

#2 SnakeEyes

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Posted 05 February 2004 - 08:34 AM

I quite like my signature. I think it shows Bond in a paragraph.

#3 Grubozaboyschikov

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Posted 05 February 2004 - 04:53 PM

Personally, I adore the first paragraph of chapter 23 in DAF. Pretty romantic.

#4 Johnboy007

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Posted 05 February 2004 - 11:22 PM

I really like Jim's sig, but these are mine:


'Since last January he has ceased to be an animal. By a simple stroke of surgery on the woman he loved, I reduced him to human dimensions.'

Fits my life at this moment

'No self respecting man could get through the day without his battery of four-letter words to cope with the roughage of life and let off steam. If you're late for a vital meeting with your superiors, and you find you left all your papers at home, surely you say, well, Freddie Uncle Charlie Katie, if i may put it so as not to offend'

Just plain funny

#5 Double-Oh-Zero

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Posted 06 February 2004 - 02:39 AM

I had it in my sig for awhile; It's from LALD:

Those who deserve to die, die the death they deserve.

Don't know what it is about it, I just really like that one.

#6 Jim

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Posted 06 February 2004 - 08:43 AM

The below - very fond of it; the real James Bond.

#7 Gebruder Gumbold

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Posted 06 March 2004 - 08:10 PM

I like "No. Spelled like yes?" A real funny passage.