Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
BEATRICE WOODHardships 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.
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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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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And culture is – each of us – is like one pearl added to another to make a chain. We each contribute to the other. And that’s all right. But once you’re on your own, do that which comes from within. And I feel this very strongly.
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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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I was in a convent for a year.
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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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