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Pearl S. Buck

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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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“Of course imagination is the beginning of creation. Without imagination there can be no creation.”

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“For he came to perceive that since people were his study, his teachers, the objects through which he could satisfy his persistent wonder about life itself, his own being among others, wherever he lived for the moment, there was his home.”

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“Wandering is never waste, dear boy,' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation.”

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“To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think.”

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“There was no need to hurry that future—yet the length of his own youth pressed upon him. Whatever he was to do next he wanted to begin now. But how to begin and on what?”

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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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“Make love! He disliked the phrase. Could one make love?”

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“Crowds moved wherever he went, across the bridge to Manhattan, in New York, wherever he went, life flowed and eddied, but he was not part of it.”

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“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than physical and yet pervading the restlessness of his body, was a burden to him until he could find the path for its release.”

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“Whatever came to him was good. It was life. It was knowledge.”

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About the Author

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

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