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Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.

Beatrice Wood

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOOD

Happiness Life Mistake
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 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
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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Important Matter Pearls
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
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
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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Acting Actresses Fascinating
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
Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
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
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
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
Choosing to live in the timeless, I am now at the easiest and happiest time of my life.
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Choosing Easiest Happiest Life Time Timeless
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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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Girlfriend Husband Men
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

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