Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.

—J. M. Barrie

About J. M. Barrie

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Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (; 9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright. He was born and educated in Scotland and then moved to London, where he wrote several successful novels and plays. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him...

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Ambition—it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

—J. M. Barrie

The praise that comes from love does not make us vain, but more humble.

—J. M. Barrie

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

—J. M. Barrie

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

—J. M. Barrie

God memory winter roses

I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

—J. M. Barrie

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Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they'll, you'll have more beads than you know what to do with.

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Life is just one damned thing after another.

—Isaac Asimov

It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.

—Henry J. Tillman

The purpose of life is to fight maturity.

—Dick Werthimer

Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet.

—Diane Ackerman

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