Always be a little kinder than necessary.
James M. Barrie
Ambition - it is the last infirmity of noble minds.
James M. Barrie
Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe.
If you believe, clap your hands!
James M. Barrie
Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life
if you will sacrifice everything else for it.
James M. Barrie
Every man who is high up likes to think that he has done it all himself,
and the wife smiles and lets it go at that.
James M. Barrie
Everytime a child says 'I don't believe in fairies' there is a a little fairy
somewhere that falls down dead.
James M. Barrie 
For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my
pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie
Illustrations from Peter Pan......original book by James Barrie. 
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Date of Birth:
May 9, 1860
Date of Death:
June 19, 1937
Nationality:
British
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Mermaids from Peter Pan. 
Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie James Matthew Barrie's classic story of the boy who didn't want to grow up was later republished as a novel. The cast of characters includes three children, Wendy, Michael and John, who accompany Peter to a Neverland teeming with colorful characters such as Princess Tiger Lily, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys. Barrie created Peter Pan in stories he told to the sons of his friend Sylvia Llewelyn Davies.  In the classic story, a girl named Wendy is invited to Neverland to be a mother for Peter's gang of Lost Boys. The story has been adapted as a pageant, a Broadway musical, a ballet, and eight movies, including a full-length animated Disney feature and several live-action films such as Hook and the recently released Universal blockbuster. 1902: Peter Pan was first introduced in the book The Little White Bird, which was based on Barrie's relationship with the Llewelyn Davies children.
The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.
James M. Barrie
1904: The story of Peter Pan is expanded in this play, Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up.
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1906: The portion of The Little White Bird that included Peter Pan was published as the children's book Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
1911: Barrie adapted the play into a novel called Peter and Wendy. The novel is now often published as Peter Pan, which can cause confusion as this is the same as the title of the play.
****************************************** Peter & Wendy by J. Barrie.................. Re: The book below is a synopsis............... Peter Pan is interesting because there really is no definitive text for him: Author J.M. Barrie first conceived of him as a baby wandering around London's Kensington Gardens in the novel The Little White Bird, and then wrote a play about him in his more familiar form. The play went on for a long time, often with changes made to the plot from year to year--at one point, Peter had a goat, for instance--and then finally Barrie novelized Peter in Peter and Wendy. 
I liked this book much more than I expected to. It's much more complex than the Disney version, which is sort of simplistic in its idealization of Peter. In the book, Peter is a much more complex and tragic figure--he's vain, self-centered, forgetful, violent, and foolish. And Tinker Bell is just a bitch. Peter and Wendy is full of allusions to sex--like the way that Peter fails to understand how "interested" Tinker Bell, Tiger Lily, and Wendy are in him--and death--like Hook's ticking crocodile, which is one of the best metaphors for death that exists in English literature. Peter and Wendy is great because it's dark, sarcastic, and ultimately heartbreaking. At the end, Peter agrees to come back in the spring every year for Wendy (to help with spring-cleaning), but he misses a year, and when he comes back the following year, he doesn't notice that he's missed one. This is a passage from that part:
"Who is Captain Hook?" he asked with interest when she spoke of the arch enemy.
"Don't you remember," she asked, amazed, "how you killed him and saved all our lives?"
"I forget them after I kill them" he replied carelessly.
When she expressed a doubtful hope that Tinker Bell would be glad to see her he said, "Who is Tinker Bell?"
"O Peter," she said, shocked; but even when she explained he could not remember.
"There are such a lot of them," he said. "I expect she is no more."
I expect he was right, for fairies don't live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them.
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