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Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.
Pearl S. Buck
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Pearl S. Buck
Age: 80 †
Born: 1892
Born: June 26
Died: 1973
Died: March 6
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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Love can never be a sin. It can be only a blessing. Even if you're not loved in return -- though I can't imagine that -- to love is a proof of life -- indeed, it's the only proof, for once you can't love another human being, you're not alive.
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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
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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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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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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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doing and being are very closely tied together, and unless you are doing what you secretly want to do, you aren't able to be the sort of person you want to be.
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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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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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... [I]n any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.
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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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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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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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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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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
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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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