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Pearl S. Buck was a prominent American writer born on June 26, 1892, and died on March 6, 1973. She is celebrated for her works that delve into Chinese culture and life, earning her the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1932 for her novel 'The Good Earth'.

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“She had always been too wise to tell him all she thought and felt, knowing by some intuition of her own womanhood that no man wants to know everything of any woman.”

Knows Men Want Felt Knowing Wise Intuition Womanhood

Book:Peony: A Novel of China

Source: Peony: A Novel of China

“It is better to learn early of the inevitable depths, for then sorrow and death can take their proper place in life, and one is not afraid.”

Grief Sorrow Depth Inevitable Not Afraid Place In Life

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“From that house there has come so much life that it ought never to die or fall into ruin... For me that house was a gateway to America.”

Home America Dies Fall House Ought Ruins Gateways

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.”

Universe Lines Possibility Absolutes Reaching Infinity Unbelievable Parallels Parallel Lines

Book:A Bridge for Passing

Source: A Bridge for Passing

“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 except herself?”

Knows Love Made Soul Dream Age House Kindness Self Love Mercy Prison Chains Dependent Cheerfulness Tempest Alone Time Jailer

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership.”

Life Mind Wells Kind Persons Whole Action Honesty Integrity Essentials

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.”

Doe Soul Difficult Wonder Technology Produce Elements Labor Machines Combination Dull Rebel Resentful Metallic

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.”

Ifs Men Lost Interest Debt Faster Ran Tigers

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Men of action," whose minds are too busy with the day's work to see beyond it. They are essential men, we cannot do without them, and yet we must not allow all our vision to be bound by the limitations of "men of action.”

Men Mind Action Vision Essentials Bounds Busy Limitation Too Busy

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Our bodies can be mobilized by law and police and men with guns, if necessary-but where shall we find that which will make us believe in what we must do, so that we can fight through to victory?”

Ifs Men Believe Body Law Fighting Victory Gun Police Idealism

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.”

People Country Whole Simple Leader

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.”

Littles Born Sin Shadow Originals Salvation Burden Novelists Creeds Doom Original Sin Embryos Sins Not

Author:Pearl S. Buck

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

Men Educated Grass

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

About the Author

Born: June 26, 1892
Died: March 6, 1973
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 263

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