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I was in a convent for a year.

Beatrice Wood

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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Believe Romantic Sex
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
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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Mean Thinking Time
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
You know, God, the power that makes life, whatever it is, had just to make two things, masculine and feminine, for all this mischief. And made them so there is this entirely different point of view about love and sex
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Life Sex Views
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
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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Another Come Contribute Each Once Pearl True
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Inspire Life Thinking

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