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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
Oregon
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking.
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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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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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the heart never grows old.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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If I have learned anything in my long life it is to be grateful for every occasion when I followed my sympathies and avoided my antipathies.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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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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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control.
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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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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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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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Hunger makes a thief of any man.
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