James M. Barrie Quotes
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Always be kinder than necessary.
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I do believe in fairies, I do, I do.
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Never is an awfully long time.
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Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years. Many views that I held to in my youth and long afterwards are a pain to me now, and I am carrying away from Thrums memories of errors into which I fell at every stage of my ministry. When you are older you will know that life is a long lesson in humility.
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There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.
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Forget not your past, for in the future it may help you grow
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One's religion is whatever he is most interested in.
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A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply that they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
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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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Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
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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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You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end.
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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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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.
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You won't forget me, Peter, will you, before spring-cleaning time comes? Of course Peter promised, and then he flew away. He took Mrs. Darling's kiss with him. The kiss that had been for no one else Peter took quite easily. Funny. But she seemd satisfied.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.
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...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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All children, except one, grow up.
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i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.
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All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!
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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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We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.
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I like well to be in the company of explorers
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Courage: The lovely virtue-the rib of Himself that God sent down to His children.
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