James M. Barrie Quotes - Page 2

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• Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.

  James M. Barrie

  Letting Go, Goodbye, Farewell

  "Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up". Book by James M. Barrie, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1911.

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• The useless men are those who never change with the years.

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  Motivational, Change, Years

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• We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

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  Inspirational, Moving On, Success

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• Those who aim low usually hit their targets.

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  Target, Lows, Aim

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• It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

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  Book, Writing, Ears

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• The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.

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  Inspirational, Real, Men

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• So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of happy things, and your heart will fly on wings, forever, in Never Never Land!

  James M. Barrie

  Life, Happiness, Dream

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• We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

  James M. Barrie

  Loss, Reality, Understanding

  "Margaret Ogilvy". Book by James M. Barrie, 1897.

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• Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned.

  James M. Barrie

  Book, Add, Life Is

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• Second star to the right and straight on 'til morning.

  James M. Barrie

  Country, Morning, Stars

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• All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again.

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  Neverland, Happened, Happens

  "Peter Pan". www.imdb.com. February 5, 1953.

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• Why can't you fly now, mother?" "Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." "Why do they forget the way?" "Because they are no longer gay and innocent and heartless. It is only the gay and innocent and heartless who can fly.

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  Mother, Growing Up, Gay

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.152, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If you shut your eyes and are a lucky one, you may see at times a shapeless pool of lovely pale colours suspended in the darkness; then if you squeeze your eyes tighter, the pool begins to take shape, and the colours become so vivid that with another squeeze they must go on fire.

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  Eye, Fire, Darkness

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.78, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Life is a long lesson in humility.

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  Life, Humility, Long

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.31, Jazzybee Verlag

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• If growing up means it would be beneath my dignity to climb a tree, I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!

  James M. Barrie

  Change, Growing Up, Mean

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• Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

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  Love, Happiness, Broken Heart

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little Minister (Illustrated Edition)”, p.215, Jazzybee Verlag

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• i know i'm not clever but i'm always right.

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  Clever, Knows

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• Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

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  Heart, Absence, Forgetful

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• Just always be waiting for me.

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  Waiting

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

  James M. Barrie

  Love, Humble, Doe

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• I'll teach you how to jump on the wind's back, and then away we go.

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  Wind, Away We Go, Teach

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.38, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Make your feet your friend.

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  Feet, Hiking, Trekking

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Sentimental Tommy (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• There are many different kinds of bravery. There's the bravery of thinking of others before one's self. Now, your father has never brandished a sword nor fired a pistol, thank heavens. But he has made many sacrifices for his family, and put away many dreams... He put them in a drawer. And sometimes, late at night, we take them out and admire them. But it gets harder and harder to close the drawer... He does. And that is why he is brave.

  James M. Barrie

  Dream, Father, Sacrifice

  "Fictional character: Mrs. Darling". "Peter Pan", www.imdb.com. December 9, 2003.

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• Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

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  Love, Men, Thinking

  What Every Woman Knows (1918) act 4

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• It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else, and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. Some women, the few, have charm for all; and most have charm for one. But some have charm for none.

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  Needs, Matter, Charm

  'What Every Woman Knows' (performed 1908, published 1918) act 1

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