Pearl S. Buck Quotes
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
Quotes to Explore
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.
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Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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It's always good news when you're closer to the truth.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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We weren't dirt poor, but there was no spare money kicking around. While it was very much understood that the way to a better life was through education, books were a luxury we couldn't afford. But when I was six, we actually moved opposite the central library, and that became my home from home.
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Seventh and eighth grade? That's the worst. I think it's the lowest point of life. All I remember is painful acne and terrible clothes. And lots of getting dumped.
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If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
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I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
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When you really work hard for something that you genuinely and truly love, and you don't want it to fail, it's a good feeling to see it do good.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
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Something's been guiding me around throughout my life.
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Everyone is into male grooming.
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In working with those who are dying, I offer another human being a spacious environment with my mind in which they can die as they need to die. I have no right to define how another person should die. I'm just there to help them transition, however they need to do it.
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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.
