Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 7

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• Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.

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  Air, Jewels, Water

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• Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer except herself?

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  Love, Dream, Kindness

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• Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create - so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, his very breath is cut off from him. He must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.

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  Book, Creativity, Cutting

  "The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters: Insiders Secrets from Hollywood's Top Writers". Book by Karl Inglesias (p. 4), 2001.

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• Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

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  Blow, Wind, Unity

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.67, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Reflection, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.470, Open Road Media

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• We must have hope or starve to death.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Having Hope

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• Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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  States, Wells, Knows

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• What seems new is only new to us.

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  Workout, Judaism, Seems

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• Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

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  War, Coarse, Wanted

  Pearl S. Buck (1982). “The Old Demon”, Creative Education

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• She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.

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  Wise, Men, Knowing

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.112, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Country, Real, Men

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• 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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  Appreciation, Real, Believe

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• there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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  Guides, Reciprocity, One Word

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• 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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  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction

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  Mother, Writing, Wind

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• If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

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  Writing, Tasks, Revision

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• 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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  Sins Not, Shadow, Novelists

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• My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.

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  Mother, Children, Memories

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• 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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  Grief, Mountain, Finals

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• The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.

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  Justice, Diversity, Mind

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• 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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  Running, Heart, Grieving

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Mother: A Novel”, p.195, Open Road Media

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• ... [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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  Peace, War, Mean

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

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  Life, Real, Father

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

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  Self, Sea, Weather

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• There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

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  People, World, Food Banks

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