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You can’t change the world, you can only change yourself.

Beatrice Wood

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
My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
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Happiness Life Mistake
I’m not too interested in books about India.
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Book India Interested
But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Knows Persons Realizing
A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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Mind Poet Rich
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
I happen to believe that there is an afterlife
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Afterlife Believe Happens
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
But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Art Country Theatre
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
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, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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Adventure Danger Love
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
Well, I don’t go out much socially. I don’t enjoy going out.
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Enjoy Going Out Wells
Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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Country Crafts Wonderful
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

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