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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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the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
1st Baronet
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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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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 try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.
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I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back
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It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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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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I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.
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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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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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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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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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After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.
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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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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.
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He was never more sinister than when he was most polite.
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Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.
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