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God is not in the vastness of greatness. He is hid in the vastness of smallness . He is not in the general. He is in the particular.

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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Smallness
Vastness
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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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men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.
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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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Only the brave should teach....Teaching is a vocation. It is as sacred as priesthood as innate a desire, as inescapable as the genius which compels a great artist. If he has not the concern for humanity, the love of living creatures, the vision of the priest and the artist, he must not teach.
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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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She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.
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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
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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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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.
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None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.
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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
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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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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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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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