Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

Society Make Our Right

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

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Joy Work Discover Fountain

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

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Great Mistake Every Halfway

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Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl S. Buck

Order Shape Upon Beauty

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Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Some Kissing Mother's Some

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Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl S. Buck

Praise Out Season Tactlessly

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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

Religion Dead It May

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What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl S. Buck

Neglected Child What Planned

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We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Pearl S. Buck

China Send Chinese Get

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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.

Pearl S. Buck

Feel Need Any Faith

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None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl S. Buck

None Have Always Free

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Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck

Love Dies Only Growth

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The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

Bitterest Creature Under Heaven

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Love alone could waken love.

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Love Alone Could Waken

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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.

Pearl S. Buck

Nothing Life Good Marriage

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Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Pearl S. Buck

Absorb Am Angels Cannot

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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

Myself Inside Place Where

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

Pearl S. Buck

Serve Beautiful But Only

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Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Pearl S. Buck

Men Rather Starving Free

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

Young Enough Know Prudent

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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

Hope Mood Faith Work

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You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Pearl S. Buck

Age Amount Come Contact

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Faces Future One Past

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The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Pearl S. Buck

Basic Discovery About Any

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Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl S. Buck

Chinese People Nothing No

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

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Today Want Yesterday To

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Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

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Self Expression Pass Communication

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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

Life Idealism Empty Indeed

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When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Pearl S. Buck

When Men Destroy Old

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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Pearl S. Buck

Good People Any Country

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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

C. S. Forester

Book Each Felt Like

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A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

C. S. Forester

Always Clutch Excuse Hearth

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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

C. S. Forester

Contrast Counterfeit Crises Deeply

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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

C. S. Forester

Editors Formed Ideals Never

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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

C. S. Forester

Desire End Felt Heard

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Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

C. S. Forester

Away Exhausting Far Know

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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

C. S. Forester

Applied Clerk Doctor Get

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The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

C. S. Forester

Accord Arm Came Day

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The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.

C. S. Forester

Bed Breakfast Dress Eat

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There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.

C. S. Forester

Begin Beginning Continue End

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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.

C. S. Forester

Along Different Lines Need

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They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.

C. S. Forester

Accepted Alive Being Chance

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When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

C. S. Forester

Catalogue Die Ever Head

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With two people and luggage on board she draws four inches of water. Two canoe paddles will move her along at a speed reasonable enough in moderate currents.

C. S. Forester

Along Board Canoe Currents

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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

Got Know Left Lose

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Artist Hard Intellectual Says

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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

Charles Bukowski

Back Bar Bunch Dice

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There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Charles Bukowski

Always Depends Finds First

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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

Friends Jail Know Sentence

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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

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Between Democracy Dictatorship Difference

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4391 Novelist Quotes

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl S. Buck

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

Pearl S. Buck

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

Pearl S. Buck

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

What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.

Pearl S. Buck

We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country.

Pearl S. Buck

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.

Pearl S. Buck

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Pearl S. Buck

Love dies only when growth stops.

Pearl S. Buck

The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

Pearl S. Buck

Love alone could waken love.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck

Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels.

Pearl S. Buck

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

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

Pearl S. Buck

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.

Pearl S. Buck

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

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

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women.

Pearl S. Buck

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.

Pearl S. Buck

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

Pearl S. Buck

Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.

Pearl S. Buck

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

Pearl S. Buck

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Pearl S. Buck

When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.

Pearl S. Buck

I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.

C. S. Forester

A whim, a passing mood, readily induces the novelist to move hearth and home elsewhere. He can always plead work as an excuse to get him out of the clutches of bothersome hosts.

C. S. Forester

Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

C. S. Forester

I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

C. S. Forester

I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

C. S. Forester

Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.

C. S. Forester

The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.

C. S. Forester

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

C. S. Forester

The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.