Frasi di Pearl S. Buck

pagina 4

“Le persone che provano a vivere da sole non avranno successo come esseri umani. I loro cuori inaridiranno se non risponderanno ad altri cuori. Le loro menti si restringeranno se ascolteranno solo l'eco dei propri pensieri senza altra fonte d'ispirazione.”

“Nessuno che sia sempre stato libero può comprendere il terribile fascino della speranza di libertà per chi non è libero.”

“Ogni grande errore ha un momento a metà strada, una frazione di secondo in cui si può annullare e forse rimediare.”

“Che cosa dobbiamo farcene di una donna bella? Una donna che curi la casa, e che procrei dei figli lavorando – ecco quel che ci occorre! Le donne belle non hanno altro pensiero che scegliersi vestiti che s'intonino con la loro faccia. Alla larga! Noi siamo contadini.”

“Meglio arrivare primi con una donna brutta, che centesimi con una bella.”

“Soffrirai perché niente dura, ecco tutto. È la dannazione finale alla quale cerchiamo di sfuggire per tutta la vita.”

“La persona che cerca di vivere da sola non avrà successo come essere umano.”

“Credo negli esseri umani, ma la mia fede è senza sentimentalismo.”

“Yet somehow 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 in the way that it cares for its helpless members.”

“I don't know whether Abraham Lincoln knew exactly what he was doing when he freed the slaves. Perhaps he did it only as a war measure. The war, you remember, dragged along without any heart in it. Nobody seemed to want to fight. There was everything to fight for- the Union, the preservation of a country whole- but the idea of union, even of country, did not seem enough to make men want to fight… There were even plenty of people, accustomed to the small compact nations of Europe, who thought that perhaps this great expanse of America should not be one country, that it might be better if it were divided into nations instead of states. But others were determined that the continual bickering and quarreling between the little nations of Europe should not be repeated here and they were determined to keep the country whole and large, and among these was Abraham Lincoln.”

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

“For the truly creative mind in any field is no more than this — a human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive. To him a touch is a blow, a sound is a noise, a misfortune is a tragedy, a joy is an ecstasy, a friend is a lover, a lover is a god, and failure is death. Add to this cruelly delicate organism the overpowering necessity to create — to create — to create — so that without the creating of music or poetry or books or buildings or something of beauty and meaning his very breath is cut off from him. He must create. He must pour out creation. By some strange unknown pressing inward urgency he is not really alive unless he is creating.”