Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 6

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• Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.

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  Children, Real, Long

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.502, Open Road Media

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• I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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  Change, Nature, Garden

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

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  Inspirational, Heart, Blame

  1967 To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

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• Purposeless activity may be a phase of death.

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  Greed, Phases, May

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• Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

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  Writing, Years, Months

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• I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

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  Believe, Men, Differences

  Pearl S. Buck (2017). “Of Men and Women: How to Be for Each Other”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.

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  War, Intelligent, Epidemics

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

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• Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

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  Men, Mind, Life Is

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• To understand what happens now one must find the cause, which may be very long ago in its beginning, but is surely there, and therefore a knowledge of history as detailed as possible is essential if we are to comprehend the present and be prepared for the future.

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  Long Ago, Essentials, May

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

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• Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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  Sad, Men, Hunger And Poverty

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “The Good Earth”, p.154, Open Road Media

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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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• 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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• Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

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  Hope, Empty, Idealism And Realism

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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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• You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.

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  Love Is, Judging, Hardship

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• I am mentally bifocal.

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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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• Love alone could waken love.

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  Love, Alone In Love

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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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  Men, Grass, Educated

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

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• We must have hope or starve to death.

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  Inspirational, Hope, Having Hope

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• Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.

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  Angel, Two, Glasses

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• There is no beauty without order.

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  Order

  Pearl S. Buck (1976). “Mrs. Stoner and the Sea and other works”

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• For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

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  Men, Evil, Giving

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

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• A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

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  Mean, Acceptance, Escaping

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• You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

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  Strong, Wall, Hands

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters”, p.286, Open Road Media

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