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 WOODI’m not too interested in books about India.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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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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I don’t like to sell my finest pieces.
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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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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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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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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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You see, I was never stage-struck the way most girls were.
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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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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Over and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
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My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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