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Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.
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
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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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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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Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.
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Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
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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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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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Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. Greeting, boys, he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned. I am back, he said hotly, why do you not cheer?
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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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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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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 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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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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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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I think it's perfectly lovely the way you talk about girls.
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Second to the right, and straight on till morning.' That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland but even birds, carrying maps and consulting them at windy corners, could not have sighted it with these instructions. Peter, you see, just said anything that came into his head.
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I do loathe explanations.
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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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