Top 100 Pearl S Buck Quotes
#1. He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.
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#2. steadily for a few minutes because Leah was so beautiful. She looked at herself in the mirror on her dressing table, and it seemed to her that all
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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. 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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#7. The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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#8. Attachment," Buddha had said, "is the cause of grief.
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#9. When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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#10. When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.
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#11. Love changes," she replied. "When the flame dies, the glow remains, but it no longer centers upon one human creature and it warms the whole soul. Then the soul looks at all human creatures with love diffused.
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#13. You seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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#14. Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.
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#15. To repay evil with kindness is the proof of a good man; a superior man blames himself, a common man blames others.
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#16. The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.
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#17. Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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#18. It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.
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#19. Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.
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#20. The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible
and achieve it, generation after generation.
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#21. I reminded myself that time takes care of many things. Asia had thought me that.
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#22. 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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#23. And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.
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#24. Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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#25. And out of his heaviness there stood out strangely but one clear thought and it was a pain to him, and it was this, that he wished he had not taken the two pearls from O-lan that day when she was washing his clothes at the pool, and he would never bear to see Lotus put them in her ears again.
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#26. All things are possible until they are proven impossible.
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#27. The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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#28. As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.
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#30. Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.
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#32. As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.
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#33. Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.
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#35. It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.
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#36. Well, and you may have lived in the courts of the Old Lord, and you were accounted beautiful, but I have been a man's wife and I have borne him sons, and you are still a slave.
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#38. When we know what we want to prove, we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
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#39. When foreigners come into a nation, the best way is to make them no longer foreign. That is to say, let us marry our young together and let there be children. War is costly, love is cheap.
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#40. If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself ... a human being.
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#41. It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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#42. My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few.
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#44. And as for equality, are the fingers on one hand equal in length? Each has its place.
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#45. In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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#46. The children are waiting for us," she said. Those were her words, but what she really said was that I must live and begin now to live. Death must not interrupt life. There were others waiting for us.
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#47. 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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#48. Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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#49. 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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#50. 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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#51. The first peaches of spring - the first peaches! Buy, eat, purge your bowels of the poisons of winter!
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#52. Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored - it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.
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#53. Though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?
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#54. This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.
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#55. The vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
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#56. An Englishman is never afraid of being laughed at. He just thinks the other fellow is a fool. But Americans still can't risk anybody laughing at them.
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#57. Sorrow fully accepted brings its own gifts. For there is alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmitted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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#59. However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.
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#61. But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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#62. The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.
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#63. I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
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#64. There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.
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#65. Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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#66. To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.
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#68. 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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#69. As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
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#70. You cannot be happy until you understand that life is sad
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#71. Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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#72. No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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#73. When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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#74. Nations, like individuals, can only learn by their own individual experience." Yul-chun
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#75. We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage - and indeed perhaps more.
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#76. 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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#77. It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something." The
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#78. [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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#79. Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.
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#80. There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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#81. Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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#82. To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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#83. wept, and in the wrinkles of old people. In the house of the Manchu Bannerman,
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#84. if one can surmount poverty and can love in moderation, there is no obstacle to happiness for anyone.
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#85. 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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#86. When the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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#87. Music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.
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#88. For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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#90. 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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#92. 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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#93. If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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#94. 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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#95. You are an artist," she said. "But then all scientists are artists, my father used to say. You think like an artist, at any rate, and I can see that you want what you create to be a work of art.
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#96. The highest civilizations
the longest to last and I believe the most successful in human terms
are those which have come the closest to achieving real understanding and mutual appreciation between men and women.
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#97. Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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#98. 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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#99. Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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#100. 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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