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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
Artist
Always
Revelation
Revelations
Seeking
Youth

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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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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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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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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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the heart never grows old.
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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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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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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.
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The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.
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All birth is unwilling.
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation, as colored Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens.
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The body was so little a part of him that its final stillness seemed nothing of importance. He was half out of it anyway and death was only a slipping out of it altogether and being at last what he always was, a spirit. We buried the pearly shell upon the mountain top.
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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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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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For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.
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At heart a truly modest man, he had nevertheless the modest man's pride in his modesty in the face of achievement.
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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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starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.
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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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