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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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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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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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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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Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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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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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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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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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.
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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
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In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.
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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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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.
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If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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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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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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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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