Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God’s critters tempting decent men.
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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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I don’t want to go to school and learn solemn things.
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Boy, why are you crying?
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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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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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If I were younger, I’d know more.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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A woman can be anything the man who loves her would have her be.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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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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Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.
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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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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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