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James M. Barrie: The real man?

English: Sir James M. Barrie, author, around 1910
English: Sir James M. Barrie, author, around 1910 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

 

“We should be slower to think that the man at his worst is the real man, and certain that the better we are ourselves the less likely is he to be at his worst in our company. Every time he talks away his own character before us he is signifying contempt for ours.”

 

James M. Barrie, novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1860-1937)

 


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