James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 5

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• Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Boys, Voice

  "Peter Pan". Book by James M. Barrie, www.theguardian.com.

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• I do loathe explanations.

  James M. Barrie

  Explanation, Loathe

  "My Lady Nicotine". Book by James Matthew Barrie. Chapter 16, 1890.

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• Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Stars, Long Ago

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You need not be sorry for her. She was one of the kind that likes to grow up. In the end she grew up of her own free will a day quicker than the other girls.

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  Girl, Growing Up, Sorry

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.131, 谷月社

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• Times have changed since a certain author was executed for murdering his publisher. They say that when the author was on the scaffold he said good-bye to the minister and to the reporters, and then he saw some publishers sitting in the front row below, and to them he did not say good-bye. He said instead, "I'll see you again."

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  Times Have Changed, Bye, Sitting

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• Tink was not all bad: or, rather, she was all bad just now, but, on the other hand, sometimes she was all good. Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time. They are, however, allowed to change, only it must be a complete change.

  James M. Barrie

  Hands, Feelings, Rooms

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.52, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

  James M. Barrie

  Fall, Past, Interesting

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• May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.

  James M. Barrie

  Writing, May, Biographies

  "Hide-and-seek with Angels: The Life of J.M. Barrie". Book by Lisa Chaney, www.theguardian.com. 2005.

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• Do you know," Peter asked, "why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories.

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  House, Stories, Neverland

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.24, 谷月社

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• Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

  James M. Barrie

  Halloween, Night, Men

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• Girls are much too clever to fall out of their prams

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Clever, Fall

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.23, 谷月社

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• Oh, the cleverness of me!

  James M. Barrie

  Cleverness

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.19, 谷月社

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• I like well to be in the company of explorers

  James M. Barrie

  Wells, Company, Explorers

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• astonishing splashes of colour

  James M. Barrie

  Colour, Astonishing

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.4, 谷月社

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• ...and thus it will go on, so long as children are gay and innocent and heartless.

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  Children, Gay, Long

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.157, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

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  Strange, Affair, These Days

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• I've sometimes thought . . . that the difference between us and the English is that the Scotch are hard in all other respects but soft with women, and the English are hard with women but soft in all other respects.

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  Scotch, Differences, Sometimes

  James M. Barrie (2013). “My Best Plays (Annotated Edition)”, p.272, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Build a house?" exclaimed John. "For the Wendy," said Curly. "For Wendy?" John said, aghast. "Why, she is only a girl!" "That," explained Curly, "is why we are her servants.

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  Girl, Women, House

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.67, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

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  Wife, Cricket, Loving Wife

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• It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.

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  Three, Way, Admire

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.14, 谷月社

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• It was then that Hook bit him. Not the pain of this but its unfairness was what dazed Peter. It made him quite helpless. He could only stare, horrified. Every child is affected thus the first time he is treated unfairly. All he thinks he has a right to when he comes to you to be yours is fairness. After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.

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  Children, Pain, Love You

  Peter and Wendy ch. 8 (1911)

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• Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures.

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  Adventure, Games, Helping

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.60, 谷月社

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• Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form?

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  Reflection, Thinking, Form

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.123, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Of course the Neverlands vary a good deal. John's, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands, Michael in a wigwam, Wendy in a house of leaves deftly sewn together. John had no friends, Michael had friends at night, Wendy had a pet wolf forsaken by its parents.

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  Night, House, Parent

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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.

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  Adventure, Boys, Rocks

  Peter Pan act 3 (1928) See Frohman 1

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