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We must have hope or starve to death.
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
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Hillsboro
Oregon
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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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the heart never grows old.
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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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Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
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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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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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Once the 'what' is decided, the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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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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I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.
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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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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.
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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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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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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.
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