Pearl S. Buck
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born
December 13, 1901
died
March 06, 1973
gender
female
place of birth
Hillsboro, West Virginia, The United States
about this author
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces" and the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1932 for The Good Earth.
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"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. "
— Pearl S. Buck
— Pearl S. Buck
"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
— Pearl S. Buck
— Pearl S. Buck
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