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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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The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it.
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When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.
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If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.
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Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. Perhaps he is ill, Michael said. You know he is never ill. Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy! and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been cry
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His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.
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She's awfully fond of Wendy,' he said to himself. He was angry with her now for not seeing why she could not have Wendy. The reason was so simple: 'I'm fond of her too. We can't both have her, lady.
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He was a little boy, and she was grown up. She huddled by the fire not daring to move, helpless and guilty, a big woman.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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What is algebra exactly is it those three-cornered things?
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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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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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