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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

Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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Girls Love Most Stage Stuck
I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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Finest Life Pieces
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 happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.
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Change Changing World Yourself
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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Girl Stage Way
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 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

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
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
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
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
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

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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