Author: Pearl S. Buck

Cites

• Marcel Proust (1)
  • IN: The Good Earth (1931) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: This was what Vinteuil had done for the little phrase. Swann felt that the composer had been content (with the instruments at his disposal) to draw aside its veil, to make it visible, following and respecting its outlines with a hand so loving, so prudent, so delicate and so sure, that the sound altered at every moment, blunting itself to indicate a shadow, springing back into life when it must follow the curve of some more vold projection. And one proof that Swann was not mistaken was that anyone with an ear at all delicate for music would have at once detected the imposture had Vinteuil, endowed with less power to see and to render its forms, sought to disemble (by adding a line, here and there, of his own invention)mthe dimness of his vision or the feebleness of his hand.
    FROM: Swann's Way, (1913), Novel, France
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Three Daughters of Madame Liang (1969) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They Way that can be mapped is not the Eternal Way. The Name that can be named is not the Eternal Name.
    FROM: Tao Te Ching, (-350), Religious Text, China

Cited by

• Wendy Higgins (1)
  • IN: Sweet Peril (2013) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love cannot be forced, love cannot be coaxed...
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, US
• Anchee Min (2)
  • IN: Pearl of China (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Behind the calm steadfast eyes of a Chinese woman, I feel a powerful warmth. We might have been friends, she and I, unless she had decided first that I was her enemy. She would have decided, not I. I was never deceived by Chinese women, not even by the flower-like lovely girls. They are the strongest women in the world. Seeming always to yield, they never yield. Their men are weak beside them. Whence comes this female strength? It is teh strength that centuries have given time, the strength of the unwanted.
    FROM: Letter from Peking, (1957), Novel, US