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 like to be home with my son, kickin' it and watching ESPN, a very normal life. I like to take him to school every day, watch his games.
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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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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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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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I lost my parents very early in my life. My mom died three weeks after I graduated from high school, and my dad died two years after I got married.
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Sometimes fear is used as a way to control.
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Aren't grown up people just little children at heart?
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White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc).
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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.
