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J. M. Barrie Quotes

J. M. Barrie quotes about thinking

Scottish Novelist May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937

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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 will never afterwards be the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter. He often met it, but he always forgot it. I suppose that was the real difference between him and all the rest. J. M. Barrie
The fairies, as their custom, clapped their hands with delight over their cleverness, and they were so madly in love with the little house that they could not bear to think they had finished it. J. M. Barrie
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! J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it..."
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself, and the wife smiles and lets it go at that. J. M. Barrie
[Wendy has just become the Lost Boys' mother] Peter: Discipline. That's what fathers believe in. We must spank the children immediately before they try to kill you again. In fact, we should kill them. Wendy: Father. I agree that they are... perfectly horrid, but... kill them and they should think themselves... important. The Lost Boys: So important, Peter. Curly: And unique. Wendy: I, propose something far more dreadful. Medicine. The sticky, sweet kind. The Lost Boys: Kill us, Peter. J. M. Barrie
They knew in what they called their hearts that one can get on quite well without a mother, and that it is only the mothers who think you can't. J. M. Barrie
J. M. Barrie quote: "Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to..."
Most disquieting reflection of all, was it not bad form to think about good form? J. M. Barrie
Twin, I think you should not have dreamt that, for I didn't, and Peter may say we oughtn't to dream differently, being twins, you know. J. M. Barrie
You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always think of you. J. M. Barrie

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