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J.M. Barrie

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For the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative... and either these are part of the island, or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Religion
J.M. Barrie
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When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Happiness
J.M. Barrie
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie
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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
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Forever is a very long time Peter
From Peter Pan
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
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The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
From Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Topic: Hope
J.M. Barrie
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
Topic: Success
J.M. Barrie
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If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie
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For the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative... and either these are part of the island, or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Religion
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Happiness
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie
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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
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Forever is a very long time Peter
From Peter Pan
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
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The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
From Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Topic: Hope
J.M. Barrie
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Life is a long lesson in humility.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
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We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
Topic: Success
J.M. Barrie
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If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
For the Neverland is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of colour here and there, and coral reefs and rakish-looking craft in the offing, and savages and lonely lairs. It would be an easy map if that were all; but there is also first day at school, religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the dative... and either these are part of the island, or they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Religion
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Happiness
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie
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Peter was not quite like other boys; but he was afraid at last. A tremour ran through him, like a shudder passing over the sea; but on the sea one shudder follows another till there are hundreds of them, and Peter felt just the one. Next moment he was standing erect on the rock again, with that smile on his face and a drum beating within him. It was saying, "To die will be an awfully big adventure.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
Forever is a very long time Peter
From Peter Pan
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her, he said, ‘Who is Tinker Bell?’
‘O Peter,’ she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
‘There are such a lot of them,’ he said. ‘I expect she is no more.’
I expect he was right, for fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Death
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.
From Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
Topic: Hope
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
Life is a long lesson in humility.
From The Little Minister
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
From Peter Pan
Topic: Life
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
Topic: Inspirational
J.M. Barrie
NOT YET RATED▼
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
Topic: Success
J.M. Barrie
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If you have it [love], you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't matter much what else you have.
Topic: Love
J.M. Barrie