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Pearl S. Buck

Born: June 26, 1892

Died: March 6, 1973

Nationality: American

Occupation: Novelist, writer, teacher

Biography: 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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Pearl S. Buck

“A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.”

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“All things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible may only be so, as of now.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: A Bridge for Passing (1962)

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“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: My Several Worlds (1954)

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“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: What America Means to Me (1943)

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“Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

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“Hunger makes a thief of any man.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: The Good Earth (2012 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781453263563

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“I am mentally bifocal.”

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“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

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“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.”

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“If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: Children for adoption (1965 edition)

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“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”

- Pearl S. Buck

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)

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“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.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: My Several Worlds: A Personal Record (2013 edition), Open Road Media - ISBN: 9781480421233

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“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)

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“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

- Pearl S. Buck

Source/Notes: What America Means to Me (1943)

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