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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.

Beatrice Wood

Do be true to yourself, whether it’s bad doesn’t matter. The important thing – you have to copy while you’re studying.
BEATRICE WOOD

Important Matter Pearls
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 can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
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
Celibacy is exhausting.
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Celibacy Exhaust Sexuality
The only works of art America has given are her plumbing and her bridges.
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Art Bridge Country Plumbing
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 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
Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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Giving Over Point
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
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
I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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
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
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
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
Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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Persons Tramps Way
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
Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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Air Inspiration People

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