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Anything is possible if you wish hard enough.
James M. Barrie
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James M. Barrie
Age: 77 †
Born: 1860
Born: May 9
Died: 1937
Died: June 19
Journalist
Librettist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Writer
the United States of America
James Matthew Barrie
J.M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie
1st Baronet
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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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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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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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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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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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In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.
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I do loathe explanations.
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Some day,' said Smee, 'the clock will run down, and then he'll get you.' Hook wetted his dry lips, 'Aye,' he said, 'that's the fear that haunts me.
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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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I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
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You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, and they lift you up in the air.
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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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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Would you like an adventure now, or would you like to have your tea first?
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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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Oh, the cleverness of me!
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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The praise that comes of love does not make us vain, but humble rather. Knowing what we are, the pride that shines in our mother's eyes as she looks at us is about the most pathetic thing a man has to face, but he would be a devil altogether if it did not burn some of the sin out of him.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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They were going round and round the island, but they did not meet because all were going at the same rate.
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