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.
JAMES M. BARRIEI don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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.
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy; and when they met again Wendy was a married woman, and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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