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
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who might wish to read them can do so. Surely books ought to be within reach of everybody.
He was part of a whole, a people scattered over the earth and yet eternally one and indivisible. Wherever a Jew lived, in whatever safety and isolation, he still belonged to his people.
People on the whole are very simple-minded, in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them.
It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.
There will never cease to be ferment in the world unless people are sure of their food.
When hope is taken away from a people, moral degeneration follows swiftly thereafter.
I learned to distinguish between the two kinds of people in the world: those who have known inescapable sorrow and those who have not.
The best government in the world, the best religion, the best traditions of any people, depend upon the good or evil of the men and women who administer them.
People don't care to read what they already think or what any people think - they know all that well enough. They want to know what they ought to think.
I learned early to understand that there is no such condition in human affairs as absolute truth. There is only truth as people see it, and truth, even in fact, may be kaleidoscopic in its variety. The damage such perception did to me I have felt ever sinceI could never belong entirely to one side of any question.
The older a people grows, the more it absorbs its own landscape and builds to it.
Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.
destructiveness comes only when life isn't lived. People who can live their lives don't destroy themselves.
Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.