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I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.

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
Writer
Hillsboro
Oregon
Pearl Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker
John Sedges
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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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When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.
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when the people of any country choose peace at all costs, not even generals can make war.
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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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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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But what happens when her beauty is torn from her like a cover from a book? Will he care to read her then, although her pages speak of nothing but love for him?
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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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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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When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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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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Introversion, at least if extreme, is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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The main barrier between East and West today is that the white man is not willing to give up his superiority and the colored man is no longer willing to endure his inferiority.
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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.
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