Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 8

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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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• 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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

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

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• If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Writing, Tasks, Revision

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• ... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.

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  Peace, War, Mean

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.77, Open Road Media

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• The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Grief, Mountain, Finals

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• Nothing is menial where there is love.

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• No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either, oh, no, only the real ones, the theoreticians, whose language was mathematics. She had not understood mathematics until he had explained to her that it was the symbolic language of relationships. "And relationships," he had told her, "contained the essential meaning of life."

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Real, Father

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.10, Open Road Media

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• There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.

  Pearl S. Buck

  People, World, Food Banks

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• It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Country, Women, Political

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• the proper place to eat lobster ... is in a lobster shack as close to the sea as possible. There is no menu card because there is nothing else to eat except boiled lobster with melted butter.

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  Food, Sea, Lobster

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• The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

  Pearl S. Buck

  Self, Sea, Weather

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• The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Women, Feelings, United States

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

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• It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Grief, Sorrow, Depth

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.26, Open Road Media

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• There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.

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  Real, Opportunity, Men

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

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• We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Hands, Meditation

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• To know what one can have and to do with it, being prepared for no more, is the basis of equilibrium.

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  Preparation, Equilibrium, Bases

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

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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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• 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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• French is the most beautiful,” he said, “and Italian is the most poetic, and Russian the most powerful, German the most solid. But more business is done in English than in any other.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Italian

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Pavilion of Women: A Novel of Life in the Women's Quarters”, p.175, Open Road Media

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• Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Spiritual, Immaturity, Introversion

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Waiting, Done, Mood

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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.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Men, Thinking, Temples

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

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

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lying, Tinder, Tomorrow

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