Pearl S. Buck Quotes

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One faces the future with one's past.

- Pearl S. Buck

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

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.

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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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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

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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.

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Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

- Pearl S. Buck

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

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Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

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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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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

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You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.

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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.

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

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Hunger makes a thief of any man.

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To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

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

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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

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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. It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.

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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

- Pearl S. Buck