The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
BEATRICE WOODChoosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Hardships and handicaps can…stimulate our energy to survive them. You’ll find if you study the lives of people who’ve accomplished things, it’s often been done with the help of great willpower in overcoming this and that.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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The second time I was there I met Marcel Duchamp, and we immediately fell for each other. Which doesn’t mean a thing because I think anybody who met Marcel fell for him.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me to go after young men and plan grabbing husbands from my girlfriends.
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