In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.
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Pearl S. Buck
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About Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Pearl S. BuckLet woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Love alone could waken love.
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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 …
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.