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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.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
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the United States of America
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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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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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Wendy: Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! Peter: How am I deficient? Wendy: You're just a boy.
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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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You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.
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I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.
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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
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This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.
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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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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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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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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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For when you looked into my mother's eyes you knew, as if He had told you, why God sent her into the world - it was to open then minds of all who looked to beautiful thoughts. And that is the beginning and end of literature.
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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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If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!
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In dinner talk it is perhaps allowable to fling any faggot rather than let the fire go out.
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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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