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i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
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
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She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.
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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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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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We have a right to know the truth no right to ask anything else from God, but the right to know that.
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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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If I were younger, I'd know more.
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After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness no one except Peter.
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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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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You were hidden behind walls of ice no man had passed them I broke them down and love leapt to love, and you lie here, my beautiful, love in the arms of its lover.
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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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Love, it is said, is blind, but love is not blind. It is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard. To see the best is to see most clearly, and it is the lover's privilege.
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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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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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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
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