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. BARRIEI am not young enough to know everything.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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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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How shall we ever know if it’s morning if there’s no servant to pull up the blinds?
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I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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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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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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