Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 2

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• What the common man cannot understand he hates.

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  Hate, Men, Common

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.145, Open Road Media

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• The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.

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  Creative, Mind, Fields

  "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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• People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.

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  Country, Simple, People

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• 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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  Life, Beautiful, Work

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• 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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  Change, Pain, Fear

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• One faces the future with one's past.

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  Time, Memories, Motivation

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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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  Home, Men, Needs

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

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• It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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  Nature, Nature And Environment, Knows

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

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  Sweet, Time, Grandma

  "China: Past and Present". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1972.

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• The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.

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  Family, Mother, Children

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• Love alone could waken love.

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  Love, Alone In Love

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• 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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  Love, Friendship, Broken Heart

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Patriot: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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  Hope, Peace, Bread

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To the Young)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

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  Love, Earth, Without Love

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• There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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  Happiness, Hope, Joy

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Child Who Never Grew: A Memoir”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Life, Honesty, Integrity

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

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  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

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  Men, Forbidden, Nations

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

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• music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

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  Music, Beautiful, Technique

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• 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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  Lines, Infinity, Possibility

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.51, Open Road Media

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• 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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  Hope, Peace, Freedom

  1943 What America Means To Me, ch.4.

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• Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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  Happiness, Happy, Cheer

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

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• Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.

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  Wonder, Life Is

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Eternal Wonder: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.

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  Love, Change, Anniversary

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