Pearl S. Buck Quotes
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
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Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.
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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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I am mentally bifocal.
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked.
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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.
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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.