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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.

Beatrice Wood

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
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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
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
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
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
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love

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