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Pearl Buck
I am comforted...
I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness. What has seemed new and frightening assumes its place...
Inside myself is...
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where you renew your springs that never dry...
Self-expression must pass...
Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment.
Source: The...
Every great mistake...
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps...
Praise out of...
Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.
In this unbelievable...
In this unbelievable universe in which we live, there are no absolutes. Even parallel lines, reaching into infinity,...
You cannot make...
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your...
I don't wait...
I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to...
All things are...
All things are possible until they are proved impossible -- and even the impossible may only be so, as of...
Ah well, perhaps...
Ah well, perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than...
Because psychologists have...
Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature...
Sometimes I would...
Sometimes I would almost rather have people take away years of my life than take away a...
Be born anywhere,...
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden...
In a mood...
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...
When hope is...
When hope is taken away from the people moral degeneration follows swiftly after.
No one really...
No one really understood music unless he was a scientist, her father had declared, and not just a scientist, either,...
Life without idealism...
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just have hope or starve to death.
The young do...
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it, generation after...
Order is the...
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
The secret of...
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy...
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