Creative Quotations from . . .
James Matthew Barrie
(1860-1937) born on
May 09
Scottish dramatist, novelist. He is best known as the creator of "Peter Pan," 1904 and "Little Minister," 1897.
         
   
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F
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.

R
I have always found that the man whose second thoughts are good is worth watching.
A
As soon as you can say what you think, and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.
N
We are all failures -- at least, the best of us are.
K
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Peter Pan," "To the Five -- A Dedication," 1902.
R: "What Every Woman Knows," III.
A: In "The Concise Columbia Dictionary of Quotations," by Robert Andrews, 1989.
N: Rectorial address, 3 May 1922, St. Andrew's University, Scotland.
K: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
 

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