Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
BEATRICE WOODChoosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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 then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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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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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 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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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 happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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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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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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