PSPearl S. Buck

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Pearl S. Buck

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01Undated

A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.

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02Undated

Just as he lived with them alive, he will live with them dead. Someday he will accept their death as part of his life. He will weep no more. He will carry them in his memory and his thoughts. His flesh and blood are part of them. So long as he is alive, they, too, will live in him. The big wave came, but it went away. The sun shines again, birds sing, and earth flowers.

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03Undated

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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04Undated

However impatient she might be in the day, however filled with little sudden angers, at night she was all tenderness.

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05Undated

The old deep sadness of life lay in the bottom of her heart and she knew it was there, but she would not allow herself to sink into it. Out of the dark and sullen bottom of a lake the lotus flowers bloomed upon its surface, and she would pluck the flowers.

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06Undated

There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?

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07Undated

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

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10Undated

Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into the earth and made a soft, dark, rich spot in the field. The child fat and good-natured and ate of the inexhaustible life his mother gave him.

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11Undated

Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.

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12Undated

Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored — it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on.

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13Undated

And listening to all the things they would do if they had these things, Wang Lung heard only of how much they would eat and sleep, and of what dainties they would eat that they had never tasted,and how they would gamble in this great tea shop and in that, and what pretty women they would buy for their lust, and above all, how none would ever work again, even as they rich man behind the wall never worked.

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14Undated

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.

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15Undated

Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.

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16Undated

Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.

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17Undated

Yes, she now believed that when her body died, her soul would go on. Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. Love alone had awakened her sleeping soul and had made it deathless.She knew she was immortal.

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18Undated

Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.

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19Undated

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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20Undated

This anxiety to keep his father from anger was wearisome to him.

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21Undated

All things are possible until they are proved impossible and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.

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22Undated

Truth is always exciting. Speak it then life is dull without it.

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23Undated

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

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24Undated

In this unbelievable universe in which we live there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines reaching into infinity meet somewhere yonder.

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