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J. M. Barrie
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„Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.“
„”There ought to be one fairy for every boy and girl.””Ought to be? Isn’t there?””No. You see children know such a lot now, they soon don’t believe in fairies, and every time a child says, ‘I don’t believe in fairies,’ there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.”“
„There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.“
„The tragedy of a man who has found himself out.“
„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.“
„I had been gone a fortnight when the telegram was put into my hands. I had got a letter from my sister, a few hours before, saying that all was well at home. The telegram said in five words that she had died suddenly the previous night. There was no mention of my mother, and I was three days’ journey from home.The news I got on reaching London was this: my mother did not understand that her daughter was dead, and they were waiting for me to tell her.“
„Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.“
„To look upon you was to rejoice that so fair a thing could be; to think of you is still to be young.“
„I’m not young enough to know everything.“
„When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies. They live in nests on the tops of trees; and the mauve ones are boys and the white ones are girls, and the blue ones are just little sillies who are not sure what they are.“
„His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants’ hall.“
„Michael believed longer than the other boys, though they jeered at him; so he was with Wendy when Peter came for her at the end of the first year. She flew away with Peter in the frock she had woven from leaves and berries in the Neverland, and her one fear was that he might notice how short it had become; but he never noticed, he had so much to say about himself.She had looked forward to thrilling talks with him about old times, but new adventures had crowded the old ones from his mind.“
„”If you believe,” he shouted to them, “clap your hands; don’t let Tink die.”Many clapped.Some didn’t.A few beasts hissed.The clapping stopped suddenly; as if countless mothers had rushed to their nurseries to see what on earth was happening; but already Tink was saved. First her voice grew strong, then she popped out of bed, then she was flashing through the room more merry and impudent than ever. She never thought of thanking those who believed, but she would have like to get at the ones who had hissed.“
„When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can’t write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Very likely if they said this in the Kensington Gardens, they were standing looking at a fairy all the time. The reason they were cheated was that she pretended to be something else. This is one of their best tricks.“
„One’s religion is whatever he is most interested in, and yours is Success.“
„I do loathe explanations.“
„They didna speak, but they just gave one another a look, and I saw the love-light in their een.“
„Your heart is as fresh as your face; and that is well. The useless men are those who never change with the years.“
„If he could get the hang of the thing his cry might become To live would be an awfully big adventure! but he can never quite the hang of it…“
„Proud and insolent youth, prepare to meet thy doom.“
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