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A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. |
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Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.- Ernest Hemingway
I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I do not know what they did about exteriors.
A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.
The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
