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James M. Barrie Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United Kingdom
  • Born: May 9, 1860
  • Died: Jun 19, 1937

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys who inspired him in writing 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" about this ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland. This play quickly overshadowed his previous work and although he continued to write successfully, it became his best-known work, credited with popularising the name Wendy, which was very uncommon previously. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents.

Barrie was made a baronet by George V in 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital, which continues to benefit from them.

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. God

Life is a long lesson in humility. life

It is not real work unless you would rather be doing something else. work

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

Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it. dreams & life

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else. work

That is ever the way. 'Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse. jealousy & wedding

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by. time

The most useless are those who never change through the years. change

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall. equality

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others. best

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are. best

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. strength