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~ Pearl S. Buck Quotes ~
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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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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2015, 10:23:26 AM »
We must have hope or starve to death.
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« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2015, 10:24:41 AM »
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
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« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2015, 10:25:09 AM »
It is better not to say 'lend.' There is only giving.
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« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2015, 10:40:37 AM »
Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.
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« Reply #5 on: July 24, 2015, 10:41:16 AM »
To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.
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« Reply #6 on: July 24, 2015, 10:41:46 AM »
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
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« Reply #7 on: July 24, 2015, 10:42:17 AM »
Truth is always exciting. Speak it then; life is dull without it.
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« Reply #8 on: July 24, 2015, 10:42:44 AM »
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
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« Reply #9 on: July 24, 2015, 10:43:57 AM »
Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.
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« Reply #10 on: July 24, 2015, 10:44:38 AM »
When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
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« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2015, 10:45:27 AM »
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
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« Reply #12 on: July 24, 2015, 10:45:58 AM »
Praise out of season or tactlessly bestowed can freeze the heart as much as blame.
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« Reply #13 on: July 24, 2015, 10:46:25 AM »
When we know what we want to prove we go out and find our facts. They are always there.
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« Reply #14 on: July 24, 2015, 10:46:54 AM »
We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.
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