All birth is unwilling.

—Pearl S. Buck

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About Pearl S. Buck

Portrait of Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck (June 26, 1892 – March 6, 1973) was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first...

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One faces the future with one's past.

—Pearl S. Buck

I am comforted by life's stability, by earth's unchangeableness.… What is new is only new to us.

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We need to restore the full meaning of that old word duty. It is the other side of rights.

—Pearl S. Buck

I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. I have enough for this life.

—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

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something, and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the one thing I can do.

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