…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
JAMES M. BARRIEFor 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.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny things to the stars.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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