Facts were never pleasing to him. He acquired them with reluctance and got rid of them with relief. He was never on terms with them until he had stood them on their heads.
JAMES M. BARRIEBoy, why are you crying?
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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She asked where he lived. Second to the right,’ said Peter, ‘and then straight on till morning.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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”She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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