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  1. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Oddjob turned and walked stolidly back towards them. When he was half way across the floor, and without pausing or taking aim, he reached up to his hat, took it by the rim and flung it sideways with all his force. There was a loud clang. For an instant the rim of the bowler hat stuck an inch deep in the panel Goldfinger had indicated, then it fell and clattered on the floor. Goldfinger smiled politely at Bond. 'A light but very strong alloy, Mr Bond. I fear that will have damaged the felt covering, but Oddjob will put on another.
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  2. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    The gloomy hall was also the main living-room. A meagre fire flickered behind the fire-irons in the wide hearth and two club chairs and a Knole sofa stood impassively watching the flames. Between them on a low settee was a well-stocked drink tray. The wide spaces surrounding this spark of life were crowded with massive Rothschildian pieces of furniture of the Second Empire, and ormolu, tortoiseshell, brass and mother-of-pearl winked back richly at the small fire. Behind this orderly museum, dark panelling ran up to a first-floor gallery which was reached by a heavy curved stairway to the left of the hall. The ceiling was laced with the sombre wood-carving of the period.
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  3. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Slowly the red dawn broke over the endless plain of black grass that gradually turned to the famous Kentucky blue as the sun ironed out the shadows.
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  4. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Bond broke into his warehouse one night and left a thermite bomb. He then went and sat in a café a mile away and watched the flames leap above the horizon of roof-tops and listened to the silver cascade of the fire-brigade bells.
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  5. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Bond remembered the dictum of the pros: 'It's never too early to start winning.
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  6. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.
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  7. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Bond slowly, wearily bent his head and looked at the ground between his spread hands. It was the girl, Tilly. She was watching the buildings below. She had a rifle – a rifle that must have been among the innocent golf clubs – ready to fire on them. Damn and blast the silly bitch!
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  8. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    What an extraordinary difference there was between a body full of a person and a body that was empty! Now there is someone, now there is no one.
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  9. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    clean-shaven and dressed in the conventional disguise with which Brooks Brothers cover the shame of American millionaires.
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  10. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    James Bond, with two double bourbons inside him, sat in the final departure lounge of Miami Airport and thought about life and death.
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  11. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    The difference between a good golf shot and a bad one is the same as the difference between a beautiful and a plain woman --a matter of millimetres.
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  12. Ian Fleming _ Goldfinger

    Bond had taken her to the station and had kissed her once hard on the lips and had gone away. It hadn't been love, but a quotation had come into Bond's mind as his cab moved out of Pennsylvania station: 'Some love is fire, some love is rust. But the finest, cleanest love is lust.
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