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Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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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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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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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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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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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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All birth is unwilling.
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The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.
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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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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.
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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
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It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.
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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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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.
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There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292
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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.
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