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Pearl S. Buck Quotes | Quotes said by Pearl S. Buck

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #1

    A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.


  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #2

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

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #3

    All things are possible until they are proven impossible.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #4

    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 cell.

    (America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine, August 1938)

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #5

    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.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #6

    As for New York City, it is a place apart. There is not its match in any other country in the world.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #7

    Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #8

    For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #9

    Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #10

    He saw on the paper a picture of a man, white-skinned, who hung upon a crosspiece of wood. The man was without clothes except for a bit about his loins, and to all appearences he was dead, since his head drooped upon his shoulder and his eyes were closed above his bearded lips. Wang Lung looked at the pictured man in horror and with increasing interest.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #11

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

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #12

    I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #13

    I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #14

    I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #15

    If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #16

    In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #17

    Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #18

    It is better to be first with an ugly woman than the hundreth with a beauty.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #19

    It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #20

    Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #21

    Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #22

    Love alone could waken love.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #23

    Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed and teased. It comes out of heaven, unasked and unsought.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #24

    Love dies only when growth stops.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #25

    Mais elle est ainsi, vivant en elle-même, voyant de la beauté où d'autres n'en trouvent point.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #26

    Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #27

    None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #28

    Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #29

    Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...

    - Wang Lung

  • Pearl S. Buck Quote #30

    Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.

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