Nobel Laureates – Part I of II: Pearl Buck 10 November 1938 – The 1938 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to American Pearl Buck for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces.” Some quotes from the work of Pearl Buck: “To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.” “You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.” “Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.” “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.” “Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” “Let woman out of the home, let man into it, should be the aim of education. The home needs man, and the world outside needs woman.” “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.” “If our American way of life fails the child, it fails us all.” “Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.” “When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.” “Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it.” ‘One faces the future with ones past.” “Order is the shape upon which beauty depends”. “I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.”
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