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“Our heroine knew that the mother would always leave the window open for her children to fly back by; so they stayed away for years and had a lovely time.”

Book:Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

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Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels

Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels is a curated collection that brings together the timeless story of Peter Pan with a selection of the most celebrated novels from various literary periods. This compilation aims to highlight the diversity and richness of classic literature, offering readers a glimpse into the enduring appeal of these works. more

Author

James M. Barrie

James M. Barrie, born on May 9, 1860, in Edinburgh, Scotland, and died on June 19, 1937, was a renowned British novelist and playwright. He is best known for his classic children's novel 'Peter Pan'. Barrie's unique literary style and contributions to children's literature have earned him widespread acclaim. more

“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.”

Ifs Life Writing Mind Moments Time Gone Fellows Forgotten Mood Score Hops Present Moment Slips Butterfly

Book:Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

Source: Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

“The writer can grow as a person or he can shrink. ... His curiosity, his reaction to life must not diminish. The fatal thing is to shrink, to be interested in less, sympathetic to less, desiccating to the point where life itself loses its flavor, and one’s passion for human understanding changes to weariness and distaste.”

Humans Persons Passion Grows Understanding Loses Curiosity Reactions Diminish Flavor Shrinks Sympathetic Weariness Distaste

Author:Norman Mailer

“Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.”

Fame Tests Merit

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”