Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl Sydenstricker Buckwas an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth26 June 1892
CountryUnited States of America
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity, meet somewhere yonder.
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.
The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him... 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.
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.
A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Men and women should own the world as a mutual possession.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.
Exclusion is always dangerous. Inclusion is the only safety if we are to have a peaceful world ...
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members