Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 7

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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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• It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.

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  Technology, Soul, Rebel

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.71, Open Road Media

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• It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

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  Discovery, Religion, Atheism

  "What America Means to Me". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1943.

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• Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

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  People, Chinese, Survivor

  1972 China, Past and Present, ch.1.

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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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• It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

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  Giving

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Good Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth, Sons, and A House Divided”, p.72, Open Road Media

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• If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

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  Enough, Born, Humans

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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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• The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

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  Memorable, Men, Discovery

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• For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put aside while the one thing is done and little thought is needed to do it. ... His hatreds can be expressed without censure, he can let his emotions run free, he can behave as dramatically, as heroically as he likes, and no one laughs at him. It is almost impossible for a man to behave heroically in the cool and ordinary times of peace. But in war anything is allowed him, he is praised and applauded and made much of, as women are excused and allowed for in pregnancy.

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  Running, Real, War

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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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• I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.

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  Children, Home, Happy Life

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• Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.

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  Children, Taught Us, Able

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

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• The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.

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  War, Reality, Men

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• nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.

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  Daughter, Sex, Son

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• Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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  Anger, Giving, Mind

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.116, 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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• When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

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  Democracy, Stills

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• What seems new is only new to us.

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  Workout, Judaism, Seems

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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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• 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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• 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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