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Pearl S Buck Inspirational Quotes (134)

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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.
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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.
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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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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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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
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The rich are always afraid.
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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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It is worse than folly... not to recognize the truth, for in it lies the tinder for tomorrow.
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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?
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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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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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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
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