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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.

Beatrice Wood

I was in a convent for a year.
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Convent Hope Years
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
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Art Books Chocolate Men Owe
I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
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 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
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
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
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
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
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
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 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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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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