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Pearl S. Buck [1892-1973] American

Rank: 101
Novelist, Writer

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China.

Alone, Marriage, Strength, Work, Age, Change, Communication, Faith, Fear, Freedom, Future, Happiness, Love, Men, Mom, Relationship, Romantic, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.	Work	101
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.	Work	102
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.	Fear, Society	103
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.	Men	104
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.	Change, Marriage	105
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.		106
Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.	Mom	107
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.		108
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.	Faith	109
Love dies only when growth stops.	Love	110
Love alone could waken love.	Alone, Romantic	111
Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.	Marriage	112
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.	Alone	113
One faces the future with one's past.	Future	114
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.	Happiness	115
Hunger makes a thief of any man.		116
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.		117
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.		118
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.		119
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.		120
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.		121
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.		122
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.		123
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.		124
The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.	Relationship	125
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.	Communication	126
Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.		201
Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.		202
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.		203
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.		204
The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.		205
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.		206
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.	Strength	207
What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.		208
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.	Freedom	209
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.	Strength	210
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.		211
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.		212
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.		213
All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.		214
I am mentally bifocal.		215
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.	Age	216
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.		217
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.		218
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.		219
Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.		220
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.		221
When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.		222
A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.		223
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.		224

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