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"My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow."
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"All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view."
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"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
Explore more quotes by Pearl S. Buck
"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."
"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."
"An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin - lined, diamond - studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison"
"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."
"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."
"Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do."
"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."
"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."
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