James M. Barrie
James M. Barrie
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OMwas a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens, then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a "fairy play"...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth9 May 1860
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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.
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The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
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Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough.
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All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.
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The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.
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The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.
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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.
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Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
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We are all failures - at least the best of us are.
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Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
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Fairies have to be one thing or the other, because being so small they unfortunately have room for one feeling only at a time.
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The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
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Every time a child says, ''I don't believe in fairies,'' there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
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Let no one who loves be called unhappy Even love unreturned has its rainbow.