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Pearl S. Buck Quotes (84 quotes)
 | “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.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: To My Daughters, With Love (1967), "To You on Your First Birthday" |
| “The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanely sensitive. To them... 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. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create, create, create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of meaning, their very breath is cut off... They must create, must pour out creation. By some strange, unknown, inward urgency they are not really alive unless they are creating.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: Earliest attribution found in: "If I die at thirty" (Zondervan Pub. House, 1975) by Meg Woodson, p. 54. The author says she found this quote in a magazine. |
| “An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls — even satin-lined, diamond-studded walls — without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison cell.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: America's Medieval Women, Harper's Magazine (August 1938) |
| Source/Notes: The Good Earth (2012 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781453263563 |
| “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.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: As quoted in: The Reader's Digest, Volume 56 (1950), p. 17 |
| “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: As quoted in The New York Post (26 April 1959) |
| “I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: As quoted in The New York Post (26 April 1959) |
| Source/Notes: Attributed in: "Living thoughts: inspiration, insight, and wisdom from sources throughout the ages" (Hartmore House, 1976), p. 101. Maybe derived from "Yesterday I would not have understood. Today, I can understand." from her book The Hidden Flower (1952) |
| “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.” ―Pearl S. Buck Source/Notes: The Goddess Abides (1972) |
| Source/Notes: Letter to the Editor, The New York Times, 14 November 1941 |
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Pearl S. Buck
Born: June 26, 1892
Died: March 6, 1973 (aged 80)
Nationality: American
Occupation: Novelist, writer, teacher
Bio: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhju, was an American writer who spent most of her time until 1934 in China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the U.S. in 1931 and 1932, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.
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