“This is I. I am as you see me. I do not care to be otherwise.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“As for their child, I am moved in two ways. He will have his own world to make. Being of neither East nor West purely, he will be rejected of each, for none will understand him. But I think, if he has the strength of both his parents, he will understand both worlds, and so overcome.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“Through these seventeen years of your life I have had this hour of your marriage in mind. In everything I have taught you I have considered two persons, the mother of your husband and your husband. For her sake I have taught you how to prepare and to present tea to an elder; how to stand in an elder’s presence; how to listen in silence while an elder speaks whether in praise or blame; in all things I have taught you to submit yourself as a flower submits to sun and rain alike. “For your husband I have taught you how to decorate your person, how to speak to him with eyes and expression but without words, how to—but these things you will understand when the hour comes and you are alone with him.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“I wish to produce the fruit of my brain for my country’s good. A mere dog may fill the earth with the fruit of his body!”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“But I am fearful of it because I hear she is learned in the Four Books, and learning has never accompanied beauty in women.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“Learn the good that you can of the foreign people and reject the unsuitable.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“Je suis comme un pont fragile, reliant à travers l'infini le passé et le présent. Je serre la main maternelle. Je ne peux pas la laisser échapper, car sans moi ma mère serait seule.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
“On croirait qu'il y a en elle deux personnes : l'une silencieuse, lointaine, même un peu taciturne, l'autre très gaie, mais d'une gaieté trop forcée pour être de la vraie joie.”
― Pearl S. Buck, quote from East Wind: West Wind
Pearl S. Buck
Born place: in Hillsboro, West Virginia, The United States
Born date June 26, 1892
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“Good luck in there," he called out, but Avery was already a world away.”
― Katharine McGee, quote from The Thousandth Floor
“There were pauses in the music for the rushing, calling, halting piano. Everything would stop except the climbing of the soloist; he would reach a height and everything would join him, the violins first and then the horns; and then the deep blue bass and the flute and the bitter trampling drums; beating, beating and mounting together and stopping with a crash like daybreak. When I first heard the Messiah I was alone; my blood bubbled like fire and wine; I cried; like an infant crying for its mother’s milk; or a sinner running to meet Jesus.”
― James Baldwin, quote from Going to Meet the Man
“Commercial farming makes up only twenty-eight percent of this country’s land. But there’s a black farmers’ union that represent six percent of that. The Development Trust, which is government, has three percent. There are black tenant farmers with four percent. And Forestry has one percent. That leaves whites with about fourteen percent of the country’s land. Doesn’t sound the same as seventy percent, does it? And that fourteen percent produced about sixty-five percent of all agricultural produce and fifty percent of foreign earnings, and employed or supported almost two million people. But all you ever heard about was us greedy white farmers.” Everyone”
― quote from The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
“There are people who say life is dull. Just a series of mundane events. But I can’t agree. Things happen. Bet on that.”
― Victor LaValle, quote from Big Machine
“firmly believe in the concept of Happily Ever After. For everyone. No matter how or who or when they fell in love. Because that love existed, they felt it, and that is worth everything. Love”
― Emma Scott, quote from Full Tilt
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