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Pearl S. Buck Quotes

Pearl S. Buck quotes about life

American Novelist June 6, 1892 – March 6, 1973

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Yet there were times when he did love her with all the kindness she demanded, and how was she to know what were those times? Alone she raged against his cheerfulness and put herself at the mercy of her own love and longed to be free of it because it made her less than he and dependent on him. But how could she be free of chains she had put upon herself? Her soul was all tempest. The dreams she had once had of her life were dead. She was in prison in the house. And yet who was her jailer... Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is..."
there is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity. Pearl S. Buck
Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon. He took his life from the earth; drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was... Pearl S. Buck
Out of the woman's great brown breast the milk gushed forth for the child, milk as white as snow, and when the child suckled at the one breast it flowed like a fountain from the other, ans she let it flow. There was more than enough for the child, greedy though he was, life enough for many children, and she let it flow out carelessly, conscious of her abundance. There was always more. Sometimes she lifted her breast and let it flow out upon the ground to save her clothing, and it sank into... Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds..."
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
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
You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve..."
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "Life is stronger than death."
Life is stronger than death. Pearl S. Buck
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to..."
If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is..."
Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...- Wang Lung Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all."
If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all. Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck quote: "Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without..."
Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it. Pearl S. Buck

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