Pearl S. Buck Short Quotes

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An artist is always seeking revelation.

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Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.

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

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What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

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A starving man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

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There was no end to a road once he had set his feet upon it.

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Nobody listened to a man who had spent his life on one idea.

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

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If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.

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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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Men cannot be free in a nation where women are forbidden freedom.

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The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

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Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

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At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

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

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Fatalism is a false premise. What will be is not necessarily what must be.

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It is easy to overthrow a government but very difficult to build a new one.

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

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He knew now that the only way to interest the rich was to suggest more riches.

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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 a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly after.

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The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.

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Anger can give energy to the mind but only if it is harnessed and held in control.

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There is one word that can be the guide for your life- it is the word reciprocity.

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The melting-pot idea is futile... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

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No daughter is ever her mother's darling. That spot is always reserved for the son.

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

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