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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
Autobiographer
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Missionary
Novelist
Screenwriter
Translator
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Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Food for all is a necessity. Food should not be a merchandise, to be bought and sold as jewels are bought and sold by those who have the money to buy. Food is a human necessity, like water and air, it should be available.
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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
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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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Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
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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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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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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
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Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
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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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Love dies only when growth stops.
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Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old... - Wang Lung
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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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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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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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