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From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.


J.M. Coetzee

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J.M. BARRIE Surely a spirited old lady may be the prettiest sight in the world.
J.M. BARRIE It is idle to attempt to overtake a pretty young woman carrying pork chops. I was now determined to ...
J.M. BARRIE When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in yo...
J.M. BARRIE Life and death, the child and the mother, are ever meeting as the one draws into harbour and the oth...
J.M. BARRIE It is glorious fun racing down the Hump, but you can't do it on windy days because then you are not ...
J.M. BARRIE Oh, you mysterious girls, when you are fifty-two we shall find you out; you must come into the open ...
J.M. BARRIE This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat 'round the board guzzling in their greed; ...
J.M. BARRIE she’d rather sacrifice herself than him suffer a single moment because of her existence.
J.M. DARHOWER You fix what's broken, not what's lost. He's gone. You can't fix that. You can't bring him back. But...
J.M. DARHOWER Do not think to swim below. The ocean is already pushing into ears, sinuses, temples, the softness o...
J.M. LEDGARD The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
J.M. BARRIE When you're mortal, life is nothing more than a drawn-out game of Russian Roulette. Every moment is ...
J.M. DARHOWER He turned to leave when arms suddenly wrapped around him from behind, stalling him. Sighing, he clos...
J.M. DARHOWER He once envied the humans because they were given the Earth, but looking at her, he wondered if mayb...
J.M. DARHOWER Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. BARRIE Of course Neverland had been make-believe in those days; but it was real now, and there were no nigh...
J.M. BARRIE You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
J.M. BARRIE We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.
J.M. BARRIE Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys," he cried, and me...
J.M. BARRIE See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.
J.M. BARRIE he decided to appeal to the fairies for enlightenment. They are reputed
to know a good deal.
J.M. BARRIE Thus, when you cry out, 'Greedy! Greedy!' to the bird that flies
away with the big crust, you k...
J.M. BARRIE All children, except one, grow up
J.M. BARRIE For otherwise he would have lost faith in his power to fly, and
the moment you doubt whether yo...
J.M. BARRIE No fue el dolor, sino lo in­jus­to del asun­to, lo que aton­tó a Peter. Lo dejó im­po­ten­t...
J.M. BARRIE Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night
J.M. BARRIE I suddenly felt the way Cinderella might have felt if she hadn’t had that convenient midnight curf...
J.M. RICHARDS The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
J.M. CAMPOS