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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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“To those at the great house it means nothing, this handful of earth, but to me it means how much!" (Buck, 57)”

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Book:The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.”

People Earth Break Wind Civilization China Chinese Characteristics Civilized Yield Survivor Phases Relentless

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“For no country is a true democracy whose women have not an equal share in life with men, and until we realize this we shall never achieve a real democracy on this earth.”

Men Real Country Earth Realizing Democracy Share Achieve Equal True Democracy

Book:Of Men and Women

Source: Of Men and Women

“When one commits one's self to an airborne craft and the door is fastened against earth and home, there is no escape even by running away. The result is a strange sense of peace - desperate, perhaps, but peace.”

Self Home Running Earth Results Doors Strange Flying Commit Crafts Desperate Running Away Airborne

Book:A Bridge for Passing

Source: A Bridge for Passing

“Every era of renaissance has come out of new freedoms for peoples. The coming renaissance will be greater than any in human history, for this time all the peoples of the earth will share in it.”

Humans Earth Greater Share Eras Human History Renaissance

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.”

Humans Has Beens Country Seems Earth Certain Given Born Human Beings Generations Air Land Died Flesh Superstitions Continuing Asian Crowded Saturated Asian Countries

Book:My Several Worlds

Source: My Several Worlds

“there's two kinds of folk in the world, just like there's two kinds of life in a seed. Something sends one kind up to hunt its food in the light and air, and sends the other kind down into the earth to make the roots.”

World Kind Two Light Earth Air Roots Folks Seeds Hunts

Book:American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels

Source: American Triptych: Three John Sedges Novels

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

Writing Firsts Moments Earth Lasts Mother Given Careers Novel Happened Wind Months West Satisfaction East Significant Forty Housewife Manuscripts Life Happens Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.”

People Stills Whole Earth Safety Jew Isolation Indivisible Parts Of A Whole

Book:Peony: A Novel of China

Source: Peony: A Novel of China

“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.”

Thinking Needs Feels Humans Earth Faith Heaven Human Beings Wonder Kindness Angel Garden Earth And Nature Goodness And Kindness Kindness To Others Human Kindness

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“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.”

Knows Earth Universe Growth Nature Change Garden Assuming Stability Frightening Unfolding Nature And Environment Starting Anew

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.”

Love Earth Without Love

Author:Pearl S. Buck

About the Author

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

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