I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
BEATRICE WOODAnd then a great thing in my life was going to India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
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I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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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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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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