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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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Hillsboro
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You are right,” he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.” That is, comprehend his hardships and understand his position, deal with his faults as gently as with your own. Do not judge him where you do not judge yourself. Madame, this is the meaning of the word love.
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In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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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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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.
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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.
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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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