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- Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own. Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.
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613 quotes from J.M. Barrie: 'To die will be an awfully big adventure.', 'All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.', and 'Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.'
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J.M. Barrie has 2049 books on Goodreads with 880572 ratings....
- Books by J.M. Barrie
39 of the best book quotes from J.M. Barrie. “Never is an awfully long time.”. “All children, except one, grow up.”. “Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever.”. “To die will be an awfully big adventure.”. “You need not be sorry for her.
Jul 3, 2024 · 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. Ch. 1 : The Love-Light; How often is it a phantom woman who draws the man from the way he meant to go?
- All children, except one, grow up. They soon know that they will grow up, and the way Wendy knew was this. One day when she was two years old she was playing in a garden, and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother.
- “Can anything harm us, mother, after the night-lights are lit?” “Nothing, precious,” she said; “they are the eyes a mother leaves behind her to guard her children.”
- Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. While eternal boyhood may seem desirable, it’s also a kind of tragedy.
- Oh, the cleverness of me! Barrie named his clever (or perhaps cocky?) protagonist “Peter Pan” drawing on two inspirations. The first inspiration has to do with the Ancient Greek god Pan.
“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.” ― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan. tags: barrie, belief, fantasy, flying, imagination, kensington-gardens, london, magic, neverland, park, peter-pan, scotland, self-confidence. 4198 likes. Like. “Dreams do come true, if only we wish hard enough.
J.M. Barrie's quote, "To live will be an awfully big adventure," beautifully encapsulates the excitement and unknown possibilities that life has to offer. To truly live means to embrace every moment with curiosity and enthusiasm, to take risks and explore new horizons.
May 9, 2015 · J.M. Barrie, famous for penning the original novel that inspired Peter Pan, was born on this day in 1860. To commemorate, we’ve put together some of our favorite Barrie quotes (no, we didn’t...
