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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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“This was his mind, a storehouse, a computer programmed to life, minute by minute, hour by hour, day and night.”

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Book:The Eternal Wonder

Source: The Eternal Wonder

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

Ifs Giving Mind Energy Anger

Book:God's Men: A Novel

Source: God's Men: A Novel

“In a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection.”

Men Mind Stills Government House White Democracy Influence Achieve He Man Reflection Congress Permanent White House Thinker

Book:My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

Source: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death.”

Mind Humans Joy Sound Born Creative Fields Lovers Creatures Tragedy Blow Noise Sensitive Misfortunes Ecstasy Creative Mind Overpowering Creating Music Gifted Children

Author: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.”

“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.”

“To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.”

Ifs Mind Heart Done Whole Beautiful Happiness Joy Purpose Inspire Helping Others Purpose Of Life Joy To The World Doing For Others

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe." from Pavilion of Women page 292”

Knows Mind Soul Light Universe Know How Pages Prison Release Gates Lamps

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The mind that doggedly insists on prejudice often has not intelligence enough to change.”

Mind Enough Culture Justice Diversity Prejudice Social Justice

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“Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.”

Men Mind Life Is Men And Women

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“A woman's mind is not an instrument apart from her other being. She does not separate herself as man does, now flesh, now mind, now heart. She is there as one, a unity complete and unified.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Instruments Unity Flesh Separation Unified

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive.”

Mind Humans Born Creative Fields Creatures Sensitive Thrive Creative Mind Overpowering Creating Music Gifted Children

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

“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

About the Author

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

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