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. BARRIE…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
More James M. Barrie Quotes
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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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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Always try to be a litle kinder than necessary.
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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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Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.
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There is a saying in the Neverland that,every time you breathe, a grown-up dies.
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The Elizabethan age might be better named the beginning of the smoking era.
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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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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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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
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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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…and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.
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