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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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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There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
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Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
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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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David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.
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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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On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
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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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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.
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I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.
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I am aware that those hateful persons called Original Researchers now maintain that Raleigh was not the man but to them I turn a deaf ear.
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Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?
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