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. BARRIEDreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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…it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.
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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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Them that has china plates themsel’s is the maist careful not to break the china plates of others
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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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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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 don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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