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an artist is always seeking revelation.
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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Seeking
Youth
Artist
Always
Revelation
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A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
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A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated and turned out to grass.
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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.
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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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We learn as much from sorrow as from joy, as much from illness as from health, from handicap as from advantage and indeed perhaps more.
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The rich are always afraid.
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It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.
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In our changing world nothing changes more than geography.
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A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.
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Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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What the common man cannot understand he hates.
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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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Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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Prejudice ... is a subjective emotion which expresses itself upon others only because of an inner necessity for release. The object is irrelevant and opportune. The person who feels prejudice is the victim of himself and his own unhappiness and dissatisfaction. Life is not what he wants it to be and it has not been what he wishes it had been.
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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.
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Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.
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