Top 100 Pearl S. Buck Quotes
#2. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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#3. Is man all man and is woman all woman? If so, they will never come together, since he lives for his own being and she lives for universal life, and these are opposites.
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#5. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
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#7. However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
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#9. Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do.
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#10. There are many ways of breaking a heart. Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream
whatever that dream might be.
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#11. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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#12. 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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#13. And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was.
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#14. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
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#15. It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.
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#16. It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The
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#17. And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.
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#18. Leah was more than beautiful. She was filled with some spirit, a high quality, which Peony admired and did not understand. The Chinese said of her, "She is heaven-good." They meant that her goodness was natural and that it flowed from a fountain within herself.
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#19. Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
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#20. He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.
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#22. It is the highest reward when a writer hears when a book written in doubt and solitude, has reached a human heart with a deeper meaning than even the writer had been aware of, as she wrote. It is something extra, the unexpected return.
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#23. The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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#24. Know thy neighbor as thyself. That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself...this is the meaning of the word LOVE.
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#26. Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
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#27. You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.
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#28. Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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#29. All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
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#31. To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.
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#32. I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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#33. The proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.
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#34. Destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.
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#35. The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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#36. Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.
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#37. But no, it was not the small single moment which had killed him. It was the anger of all his life here in this house which he himself had built and lived in and hated all his years.
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#38. I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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#39. What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.
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#40. At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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#42. To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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#43. The country she had taken for granted as her own, where she had been born, whose language alone she spoke, had rejected her and despised her.
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#44. demands the utmost in wisdom, in attack, in endurance. Violence is simple and easy, it is the sword of the stupid and dull-witted, and it always leaves chaos. To carry on a positive revolution without violence - ah, that is a challenge to intelligence!
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#45. Throw eggs at a rock, and though one uses all the eggs in the world, the rock remains the same.
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#46. Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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#47. We are compelled to choose," he sometimes complained, "between the savagery of Communism and the vulgarism of America.
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#48. The days of my youth are past and to a woman full grown a kiss means everything - or nothing.
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#49. All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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#51. It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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#52. It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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#53. Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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#54. Hope must come out of what we have, or it is not hope, but a dream.
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#55. A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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#56. For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.
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#57. In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection ...
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#58. Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.
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#60. thing and it could be sold for a heap of silver and sometimes
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#61. The superior man leads not by violence or by coarse physical acts but by the pure intelligence of a wise mind.
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#62. The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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#64. Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.
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#65. You cannot be happy unless you understand that life is sad.
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#66. It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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#67. The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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#68. Well, and they must all starve if the plants starve." 'It was true that all their lives depended upon the earth' (Buck, 71).
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#69. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members
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#70. If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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#71. The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.
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#72. Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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#74. Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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#76. The community must assume responsibility for each child within its confines. Not one must be neglected whatever his condition. The community must see that every child gets the advantages and opportunities which are due him as a citizen and as a human being.
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#78. I believe in the equality of man and woman," Rulan insisted.
"Ah," Madame Wu said, "two equals are nevertheless not the same two things. They are equal in importance, equally necessary to life, but not the same,
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#79. It is worse than folly ... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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#80. I should like to penetrate your mind with my own," he said. "I should like to pierce the mysteries of your soul.
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#82. Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?
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#83. Starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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#84. It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
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#85. None of us is so much better or wiser than any other than he can destroy a single creature without destroying something of himself." page 270 Pavilion of Women
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#86. French is the most beautiful," he said, "and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.
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#87. If the belly is full," she said, "if we could know that it would always be full, men would be idle and laugh and play games like children, and then we would have peace and happiness.
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#88. I do not blame you, child, for growing up," she announced. "But I teach you this: Whatever happens is always the woman's fault.
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#89. It is not well for a man to know more than is necessary for his daily living.
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#90. The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
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#91. This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.
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#92. To do good, to love justice, to grant that all men had an equal right to a pleasant life, these things Kung Chen believed in, and believing, he did all he could to perform his belief.
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#93. 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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#94. Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old ...
- Wang Lung
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#95. It is the end of a family- when they begin to sell their land. Out of the land we came and into we must go - and if you will hold your land you can live- no one can rob you of land.
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#96. there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The
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#97. Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.
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#98. I am never better pleased than when I know a book of mine can be bought for fifty cents or, better still, for twenty-five. No people can be educated or even cultivated until books are cheap enough for everybody to buy.
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#99. What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
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#100. We must save ourselves by doing what is godlike and we will become godlike.
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