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.

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After her return to the United States in 1935 Pearl S. Buck continued her prolific writing career and became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups and wrote widely on Asian cultures becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed race adoption. in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932.