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. BARRIENever say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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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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Boy, why are you crying?
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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