By his evil existence, which I foolishly helped to destroy, he was creating a normal of badness by which, and by which alone, an oppostie norm of goodness could exist. “So,” continued Bond, warming to his argument, “Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. All we have is the living example of people who are least good, or our own intuintion. 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, folk lore about evil people. We know nothing about him but a lot of fairy stories from our parents and schoolmasters.

The Devil has no prophets to write his Ten Commandments and no team of authors to write his biography. Mathis walks in, and Bond speaks with him these mesmerizing lines: “ There’s a Good Book about goodness and how to be good and so forth, but there’s no Evil Book about evil and how to be bad. Bond is recovering from Le Chiffre's torture in the hospital. His brilliant passage on Good and Evil from Casino Royale. In my opinion, the best thing Fleming wrote (that I know of). I almost wanted to head to the store, purchase a pack of smokes and light up after re-reading that page.

Your stars have already let you come quite a long way since you left your mother’s womb and whimpered at the cold air of the world … Don’t lose faith in your stars.” - Bond reflecting on life during his shaky ride to Jamaica. Light a cigarette and be grateful you are still alive as you suck the smoke deep into your lungs. The whole of life is cutting through the pack with death. “You start to die the moment you are born. There are assignments on which he is required to act the part of a very rich man occasions when he takes refuge in good living to efface the memory of danger and the shadow of death…' - Another fantastic Fleming opening. For starters, here are a couple from LIVE AND LET DIE: 'There are moments of great luxury in the life of a secret agent. Feel free to share some of your favorite quotes from the Fleming novels.Īs I roll through the Fleming Bond series of books once more, I'll be extracting my favorite quotes and posting them here.

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