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Pearl Sydenstricker Buck – powieściopisarka i nowelistka amerykańska, laureatka Nagrody Nobla w dziedzinie literatury w 1938 roku i Nagrody Pulitzera. Znana również pod swoim chińskim nazwiskiem Sài Zhēnzhū , w twórczości dla dzieci używała pseudonimu John Sedges. Wikipedia  

✵ 26. Czerwiec 1892 – 6. Marzec 1973   •   Natępne imiona Pearl S. Bucková
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Pearl Buck: 100   Cytatów 4   Polubienia

Pearl Buck słynne cytaty

„O przyszłości kobieta myśli, póki nie jest zamężna, mężczyzna tylko gdy już jest żonaty.”

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„Są ludzie, którzy nie zauważają małego szczęścia, ponieważ daremnie czekają na duże.”

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Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness. (ang.)

To tłumaczenie czeka na recenzję. Czy to jest poprawne?

„Nie możesz sprawić, że poczujesz coś, czego nie czujesz, ale możesz sprawić, że zrobisz dobrze pomimo swoich uczuć.”

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Pearl Buck: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”

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The Chinese Novel (1938)

“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.”

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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.

“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)

“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

“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)

“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)

“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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Źródło: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 61

“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)

“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)

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

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

“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
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“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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Źródło: 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

“Strangely enough, there were certain scholars who envied the freedom of obscurity, and who, burdened with certain private sorrows which they dared not tell anyone, or who perhaps wanting only a holiday from the weariness of the sort of art they had themselves created, wrote novels too, under assumed and humble names. And when they did so they put aside pedantry and wrote as simply and naturally as any common novelist.
For the novelist believed that he should not be conscious of techniques. He should write as his material demanded.”

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The Chinese Novel (1938)

“The common sense of people will surely prove to them someday that mutual support and cooperation are only sensible for the security and happiness of all. Such faith keeps me continually ready and purposeful with energy to do what one person can towards shaping the environment in which the human being can grow with freedom.”

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This I Believe (1951)

“It is a shameful sign of our arrogance that our history departments have almost no Chinese history in them, our literature courses almost no Chinese literature, our philosophy departments almost none of the great Chinese systems of philosophy. And our religious schools have been the most arrogant of all.
This ignorant arrogant mind has become fixed in its patterns. It is the pattern which considers anything not American to be inferior — unless it be English.”

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"China and the Federal Union" an address at the Federal Union organization, New York City (April 1942) http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/Buck/excerpt-fu.html

“Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.”

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"First Meeting"
To My Daughters, With Love (1967)

“In the midst of possible world war, of wholesale destruction, I find my only question this: are there enough people now who believe? Is there time enough left for the wise to act? It is a contest between ignorance and death, or wisdom and life. My faith in humanity stands firm.”

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This I Believe (1951)

“Had Japan been a tenth as wise as Abraham Lincoln, had Hitler been a hundredth part as sensible, we today, the United States and England, would not have a chance in this war. Had those two enemies of ours coveted the lands upon subject peoples dwell today and had they whispered the magic word freedom to those peoples, they might have set half the world against us in a moment. But they have lost because they attacked lands already free, and because they have enslaved peoples accustomed to freedom. By this one thing alone, if by no other, they are doomed. They have misread the hearts and minds of men. By their enslavement of the peoples whom they have made subject by force of arms, they have aroused against themselves a greater force than can be found in any army, in any weapon. It is this- the will of men everywhere to be free. Let us learn today from Abraham Lincoln, as we fight this war still so far from victory. He could not win that war until he lit the fire in the hearts of men and women enslaved. Nothing had been enough to make men rise up and shout aloud for victory until that moment. A few men like war and enjoy it as a game. But most men and all women hate war. They will not fight with their whole hearts unless they are set aflame. And the torch is always the same words. Whisper those words and men and women will shout them aloud and sing them as they march. The words are simple but they are the most potent in the universe- they are the spiritual dynamite of victory. The words? "All persons held as slaves… are and henceforward shall be free."”

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Źródło: What America Means to Me (1943), p. 195

“We are not empire builders. How important this fact is no American who has not lived in Asia can appreciate. It goes against our conscience, which is a very tender part of the American spirit. Therefore we are learning how to hold our allies, not by force of arms and government, but by mutual benefit and friendship. So much is already clear…
I am therefore hopeful. In spite of dismaying contradictions in individuals in our national scene, I feel the controlling spirit or our people, generous, decent, and sane. In this mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.”

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Źródło: My Several Worlds (1954), p. 407, This has sometimes been quoted as "In a mood of faith and hope..."

“Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother’s Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.”

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Of Men and Women (1941), Ch. 8

“Because psychologists have been able to discover, exactly as in a slow-motion picture, the way the human creature acquires knowledge and habits, the normal child has been vastly helped by what the retarded have taught us.”

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The Child Who Never Grew (1950)

“I suppose Abraham Lincoln knew that was what would happen. He was very wise in the ways of men. He knew how people think and feel. Doubtless he knew that deeper than anything else in the hearts of men everywhere is the wish for simple freedom- freedom without any promises even of protection, of food, of security- just freedom. He knew that those people, so long bond, would leave even comfortable sheltered places where masters were kind, if they could only be free.”

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Źródło: What America Means to Me (1943), p. 194

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