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Forever is a very long time Peter
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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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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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
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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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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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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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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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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
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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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When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
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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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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
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Men's second childhood begins when a woman gets a hold of him.
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I know, I feel, that with the introduction of tobacco England woke up from a long sleep. Suddenly a new zest had been given to life. The glory of existence became a thing to speak of. Men who had hitherto only concerned themselves with the narrow things of home put a pipe into their mouths and became philosophers.
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You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.
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You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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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 sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
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