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
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.
A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.
All in all, Vermont is a jewel state, small but precious.
There is, of course, a difference between what one seizes and what one really possesses.
the vicious result of privilege is that the creature who receives it becomes incapacitated by it as by a disease.
We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
As for inhibitions, I've spent a lifetime developing them, and I don't intend to lose them.
I don't wait for moods - you'd never get anything done if you did.
It is difficult not to wonder whether that combination of elements which produces a machine for labor does not create also a soul of sorts, a dull resentful metallic will, which can rebel at times.
Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.
in a democracy such as ours the leading minds seldom achieve a place of permanent influence. And the men who sit in Congress or even in the White House are usually not our leading minds. They are not the thinkers. Still less have they time for reflection ...
The rich are always afraid.
nature knows no sex limitations and does not bestow brains upon men alone. Daughters inherit gifts exactly as often and as much as sons.