My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.
BEATRICE WOODOver and over I’m on the point of giving it up.
More Beatrice Wood Quotes
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Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That’s just hot air.
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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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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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Here in America we’re doing the most wonderful crafts
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I’m not too interested in books about India.
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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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I was in a convent for a year.
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I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love
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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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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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A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.
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But you can’t realize, you can’t know what another person goes through.
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Yes, because when you’re in love, you are shy.
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And then, of course, most potters, they go in for earth tones and subdued things, and I like color.
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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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