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.
JAMES M. BARRIEThere are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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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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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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