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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
Journalist
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Novelist
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the United States of America
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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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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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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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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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
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A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.
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All are keeping a sharp look-out in front, but none suspects that the danger may be creeping up from behind.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
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Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them
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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
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Forever is a very long time Peter
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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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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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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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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?
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