My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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