I was in a convent for a year.
BEATRICE WOODYou 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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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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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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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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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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Celibacy is exhausting.
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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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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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Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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