Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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Pearl S. Buck

Profession : Novelist

Birth : June 26, 1892

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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Love dies only when growth stops.

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.

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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

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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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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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I am mentally bifocal.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

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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 send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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