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“Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.”

Pearl S. Buck

The Child Who Never Grew (1950), Ch. 2

“Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors. They are the oldest civilized people on earth. Their civilization passes through phases but its basic characteristics remain the same. They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break.”

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China, Past and Present (1972) Ch. 1

People

“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.”

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Of Men and Women (1941), Ch. 4

Education , Grass

“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”

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Children for Adoption (1964). Ch. 3

“Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.”

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To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

Beauty , Dependency

“A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent, without giving any sound.”

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John Calvin, quoted in The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations (2001) by Martin H. Manser, p. 56
Misattributed

God , Truth , Dogs

“The people of China forged their own literature apart from letters. And today this is what lives, to be part of what is to come, and all the formal literature, which was called art, is dead. The plots of these novels are often incomplete, the love interest is often not brought to solution, heroines are often not beautiful and heroes often are not brave. Nor has the story always an end; sometimes it merely stops, in the way life does, in the middle of it when death is not expected.
In this tradition of the novel have I been born and reared as a writer.”

Pearl S. Buck

The Chinese Novel (1938)

Love , Life , Death , People

“There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.”

Pearl S. Buck

As quoted in The Quotable Woman (1978) by Elaine T Partnow, p. 226. "When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place" has sometimes been quoted as her original statement, though she states that she herself is quoting an abbot.

Men , God , Thinking

“These Chinese novels are not perfect according to Western standards. They are not always planned from beginning to end, nor are they compact, any more than life is planned or compact. They are often too long, too full of incident, too crowded with character, a medley of fact and fiction as to material, and a medley of romance and realism as to method, so that an impossible event of magic or dream may be described with such exact semblance of detail that one is compelled to belief against all reason”

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The Chinese Novel (1938)

Life , Dreams , Perfection

“There will be no real content among American women unless they are made and kept more ignorant or unless they are given equal opportunity with men to use what they have been taught. And American men will not be really happy until their women are.”

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Harper’s Magazine (August 1938), p. 232

Women , Men , Happiness

“Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free.”

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The Chinese Novel (1938)

People , Sense

“It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.”

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What America Means to Me (1943)

Religion , Dead

“In any war a victory means another war, and yet another, until some day inevitably the tides turn, and the victor is the vanquished, and the circle reverses itself, but remains nevertheless a circle. … I came home more torn in heart than any child should be, for I saw that each side was right as well as wrong, and I yearned over both in a helpless fashion, unable to see how, history being what it was, anything now could be done.”

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Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 61

War , Home , History , Fashion

“Out of this folk mind, turned into stories and crowded with thousands of years of life, grew, literally, the Chinese novel. For these novels changed as they grew. If, as I have said, there are no single names attached beyond question to the great novels of China, it is because no one hand wrote them. From beginning as a mere tale, a story grew through succeeding versions, into a structure built by many hands.”

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The Chinese Novel (1938)

Life , Question , Change

“One does not live half a life in Asia without return. When it would be I did not know, nor even where it would be, or to what cause. In our changing world nothing changes more than geography. The friendly country of China, the home of my childhood and youth, is for the time being forbidden country. I refuse to call it enemy country. The people in my memory are too kind and the land too beautiful.”

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A Bridge for Passing (1962)

Life , People , Youth , World

“Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.”

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Source: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 192

“None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.”

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Source: What America Means to Me (1943), Ch. 4

Hope , Understanding , Freedom

“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.”

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Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Misattributed

Age , World

“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.”

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Source: To My Daughters, With Love (1967), pp. 137 http://books.google.com/books?id=adgpB1mSo24C&q=%22some+are+kissing%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage– 138 http://books.google.com/books?id=adgpB1mSo24C&q=%22mothers+and+some+are+scolding+mothers+but+it+is+love+just+the+same+and+most+mothers+kiss+and+scold+together%22&pg=PA138#v=onepage

Love , Kiss