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James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
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the United States of America
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I think one remains the same person throughout, merely passing, as it were, i these lapses of time from one room to another, but all in the same house.
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Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.
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The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
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What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be sorry and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
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Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
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If I were younger, I'd know more.
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Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
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As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
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If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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Forget them, Wendy. Forget them all. Come with me where you'll never, never have to worry about grown up things again.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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There could not have been a lovelier sight but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.
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He looked at her uncomfortably blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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Wise children always choose a mother who was a shocking flirt in her maiden days, and so had several offers before she accepted their fortunate papa.
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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We have a right to know the truth no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
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Will they reach the nursery in time? If so, how delightful for them, and we shall all breathe a sigh of relief, but there will be no story. On the other hand, if they are not in time, I solemnly promise that it will all come right in the end.
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Love is not blind it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard.
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