Love dies only when growth stops.

—Pearl S. Buck

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.

—Pearl S. Buck

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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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

—George Washington

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

—W. Somerset Maugham in Cakes and Ale or the Skeleton in the Cupboard

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I'm not trying to hide my past. I've learned a lot from it. It's made me who I am today, and I'm proud of who I've become.

—Amber Lynn Natusch in Undertow

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When you meet an extraordinary person, it's like they get inside you, under your ribs, and shuffle everything inside you around until they find space for greatness to grow. But extraordinary people always get away. And when they leave, they take that little part of you with them. Suddenly you find yourself with a gap in your chest that you don't know how to live with. Suddenly you're frightened of being yourself without them.

—Chloe Rattray in Sacré Noir

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I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.

—Henry Miller

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