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• No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

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  Believe, Writing, Sea

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• 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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  Giving Up, Men, White

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• Love dies only when growth stops.

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  Love, Marriage, Growth

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• A knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future. Fate...is not the blind superstition or helplessness that waits stupidly for what may happen. Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Knowledge, Fate

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.69, Open Road Media

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

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  Freedom, Men, Ties

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• Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung

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  Men, Years, Young

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.323, Open Road Media

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• It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.

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  Education, Children, Teaching

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• People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.

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  Reading, Thinking, People

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.414, Open Road Media

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• Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.

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  Renaissance, Earth, Eras

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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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  Wise, Chinese, Inevitable

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.243, Open Road Media

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• No longer can we afford to stuff the brains of the young with facts. The time is too short, the necessity for results too pressing. The new education must be based on the elimination of facts except as they illustrate principles. How to use facts, not how to accumulate them, is the purpose of true education.

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  Education, Brain, Principles

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• There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.

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  Differences, Courses

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• Chinese were bornwith an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplanted too young, these qualities ripened in them.... If ever I am homesick for China, now that I am home in my own country, it is when I discover here no philosophy. Our people have opinions and creeds and prejudices and ideas but as yet no philosophy.

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  Country, Philosophy, Philosophical

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• when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.

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  Country, Peace, War

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.480, Open Road Media

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• In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

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  Lying, Book, Writing

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.531, Open Road Media

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• Religion was their meat and their excitement, their mental food and their emotional pleasure.

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  Emotional, Meat, Excitement

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• Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

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  Simple, Race, India

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.

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  Hope, Taken, People

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• It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

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  Ugly, Firsts, Ugly Women

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

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  Men, World, Should

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

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• Life is stronger than death.

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  Stronger, Life Is

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.

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  Book, Men, Wife

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.302, Open Road Media

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• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

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  Inspirational, Beauty, Order

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

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• All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

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  Jewels, Vermont, States

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