Pearl S. Buck Quotes - Page 9

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• Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

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  Writing, Thinking, Trying

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• Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?

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  Believe, Fighting, Gun

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• The concept of 'Momism' is male nonsense. It is the refuge of a man seeking excuses for his own lack of virility. I have listened to many women in various countries, and I have never found a woman who willingly 'mothers' her husband. The very idea is repulsive to her. She wants to mother the children while they are young, but never their fathers. True, she may be forced into the role of mother by a man's weaknesses and childishness, and then she accepts the role with dignity and patience, or with anger and impatience, but always with a secret, profound sadness unexpressed and inexpressible.

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  Mother, Country, Children

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• The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

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  People, Landscape, Grows

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “My Several Worlds: A Personal Record”, p.395, Open Road Media

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• I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.

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  Country, Air, Land

  Pearl S. Buck (1954). “My Several Worlds”

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• Believing in gods always causes confusion.

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  Believe, Confusion, Causes

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Peony: A Novel of China”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

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  Men, People, Principles

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• At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.

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  Heart, Humility, Pride

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.237, Open Road Media

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• When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.

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  Running, Home, Doors

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.

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  Men, Mind, Vision

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• From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.

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  Fall, Home, America

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• For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

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  Women, Democracies Have, Effort

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• Vermont is a country unto itself.

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  Country, Vermont

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• The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

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  Ideas, United States, Boiling Over

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• At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

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  Morning, Water, Cooking

  Pearl S. Buck (2004). “The Good Earth”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

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  Greatness, Vastness, Particular

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “God's Men: A Novel”, p.442, Open Road Media

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• What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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  Men, Rights, House

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• In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.

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  World, Things Change, Geography

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “A Bridge for Passing”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.

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  Book, Thinking, People

  Pearl S. Buck, Harry Shefter (1989). “Good Earth”, Pocket

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• As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.

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  Lifetime, Inhibitions, Developing

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• It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

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  Government, Easy, Difficult

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