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Pearl S. Buck Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Pearl_Buck_1972.jpg/220px-Pearl_Buck_1972.jpg)
An award-winning American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu, was an award-winning American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces."
Here are some famous quotes by Pearl S. Buck.
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One faces the future with one's past.
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We must have hope or starve to death.
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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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It is better not to say 'lend.' There is only giving.
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Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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Truth is always exciting. Speak it then; life is dull without it.
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
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All things are possible until they are proved impossible-and even the impossible may only be so as of now.
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The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
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I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to earth.
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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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Once the 'what' is decided the 'how' always follows. We must not make the 'how' an excuse for not facing and accepting the 'what.'
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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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I am comforted by life's stability by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place in the unfolding of knowledge.
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It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured 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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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.