Top 250 Pearl S. Buck Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?”

— Pearl S. Buck

52. “Life is the wonder with which we are all infused.”

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53. “I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”

— Pearl S. Buck

54. “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.”

— Pearl S. Buck

55. “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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56. “A hungry man can’t see right or wrong. He just sees food.”

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57. “The rich are always afraid.”

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58. “Love alone could waken love.”

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59. “We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.”

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60. “When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.”

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61. “To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

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62. “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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63. “Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”

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64. “The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.”

— Pearl S. Buck

65. “We must have hope or starve to death.”

— Pearl S. Buck

66. “An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls-even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls-without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.”

— Pearl S. Buck

67. “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.”

— Pearl S. Buck

68. “Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

— Pearl S. Buck

69. “People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.”

— Pearl S. Buck

70. “It is love itself that is important – the ability to love, no matter whom you love. For when you can no longer love anyone, you are no longer a living person. The heart dies if it loses the capacity to love.”

— Pearl S. Buck

71. “It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.”

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72. “What the common man cannot understand he hates.”

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73. “Nothing is menial where there is love.”

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74. “Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself.”

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75. “Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever.”

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76. “The only real danger to our country is from within, that we forget our own power to be what we want to be.”

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77. “I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.”

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78. “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

79. “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.”

— Pearl S. Buck

80. “Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.”

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81. “Only very coarse persons wanted wars.”

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82. “It is easy to destroy but hard to create. Remember that, when you want to destroy something.” The.”

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83. “All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.”

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84. “The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also. Women are ignorant of their own past and ignorant of their own importance in that past.”

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85. “Love dies only when growth stops.”

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86. “Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.”

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87. “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.”

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88. “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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89. “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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90. “Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.”

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91. “No daughter is ever her mother’s darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.”

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92. “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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93. “At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.”

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94. “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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95. “As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.”

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96. “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

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97. “And roots, if they are to bear fruits, must be kept well in the soil of the land.”

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98. “We can’t stop time, but it will sometimes stand still for love.”

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99. “It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.”

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100. “Be proud of your child, accept him as he is and do not heed the words and stares of those who know no better. This child has a meaning for you and for all children. You will find a joy you cannot now suspect in fulfilling his life for and with him.”

— Pearl S. Buck