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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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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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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
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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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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.
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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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Years rolled on again, and Wendy had a daughter. This ought not to be written in ink but in a golden splash.
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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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He looked at her uncomfortably blinking, you know, like one not sure whether he was awake or asleep.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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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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How shall we ever know if it's morning if there's no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Don't have a mother,' he said. Not only had he no mother, but he had not the slightest desire to have one. He thought them very over-rated persons.
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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Mr. and Mrs. Darling and Nana rushed into the nursery too late. The birds were flown
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What is afraid?' asked Peter longingly. He thought it must be some splendid thing. 'I do wish you would teach me how to be afraid, Maimie,' he said.
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Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
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