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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

Beatrice Wood

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
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
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
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
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
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
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
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
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

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

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