Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 9

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• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

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  Book, Thinking, People

  Pearl S. Buck, Harry Shefter (1989). “Good Earth”, Pocket

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• Vermont is a country unto itself.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Vermont

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• For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

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  Women, Democracies Have, Effort

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• He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

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  Eye, Men, White

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.132, Open Road Media

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• The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

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  People, Landscape, Grows

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.395, Open Road Media

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• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

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  Mother, Country, Children

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• At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

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  Morning, Water, Cooking

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Rights, House

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Husband, Gun, Power

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• I learned early to understand that 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 damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Truth, People, Perception

  "My Several Worlds". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1954.

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• There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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  Men, Thinking, Temples

  "The Quotable Woman". Book by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226, 1978.

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• He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.

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  People, Safety, Earth

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.119, Open Road Media

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• It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

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  Government, Easy, Difficult

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• I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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  Waiting, Done, Mood

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• Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

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  Believe, Fighting, Gun

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• As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

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  Lifetime, Inhibitions, Developing

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

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  Men, Mind, Vision

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• From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

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  Fall, Home, America

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• When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

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  Running, Home, Doors

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.

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  Lying, Tinder, Tomorrow

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