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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

Beatrice Wood

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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Charming Mother Unhappy
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
First of all, I’d like to say here the fact that I’m not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Facts Firsts Work
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
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
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
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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
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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Energy Overcoming People
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
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Art Usual Work

And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

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And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

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