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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.

Beatrice Wood

Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
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
There’s so much more to life than that, though I think that acting is fascinating because you can forget your own sorrow as you act and become somebody else.
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Inspire Life Thinking
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
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
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
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, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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Color Tone
And then a great thing in my life was going to India.
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Great India Life Things
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
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
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
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
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested

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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