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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.

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
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Screenwriter
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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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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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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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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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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To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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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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Somehow I had learned from Thoreau, who doubtless learned it from Confucius, that if a man comes to do his own good for you, then must you flee that man and save yourself
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It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
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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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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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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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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