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Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.
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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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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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
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In love-making, as in other arts, those who do it best cannot tell how it is done.
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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the event happened, that when they were in the wood they had met their dead father and had a game with him.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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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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She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
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Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib she was made from his funny bone.
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When ladies used to come to me in dreams, I said, 'Pretty mother, pretty mother.' But when at last she really came, I shot her.
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It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
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David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
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