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Pearl S. Buck Quotes


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.

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.