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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.
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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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Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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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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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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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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The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.
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Love dies only when growth stops.
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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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There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
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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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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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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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There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.
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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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My first vivid memory is...when first I looked into her face and she looked into mine. That I do remember, and that exchanging looks I have carried with me all of my life. We recognized each other. I was her child and she was my mother.
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