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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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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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It is ironical that in an age when we have prided ourselves on our progress in the intelligent care and teaching of children we have at the same time put them at the mercy of new and most terrible weapons of destruction.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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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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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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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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there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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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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