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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
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the United States of America
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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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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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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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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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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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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
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They have long lost count of the days, but always if they want to do anything special they say this is saturday night, and then they do it.
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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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