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.
quote by Ernest Hemingway
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I only ever worked on interiors, and an interior is an interior. I don't know what they did about exteriors.
quote by Christopher Eccleston
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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.
quote by Robert Johnson
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En Ti Dej Mi Amor
Cuando ries veo salir el sol
Es algo increible, yeah
Hay un angel que est junto a m
Por mi corazn
Cuando ries ya no hay marcha atrs
Es algo increble, yeah
Hoy tengo un angel frente a m
Por mi corazn
S, que estoy bien a tu lado,
Tu amor es mo
En t dej mi amor
Y todo lo que soy,
Te entregaste a m sin condicin
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior
Y yo en t dej mi amor
Me salv cuando te encontre
Es algo increible, yeah
Ya no vivo en el ayer
Hoy tengo amor
S, que estoy bien a tu lado
Tu amor es mio
En t dej mi amor
Y todo lo que soy,
Te entregaste a m sin condicin
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior
Y yo en t dej mi amor
En t dej mi amor
Y todo lo que soy,
Te entregaste a m sin condicin
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior, oh yeah
Y yo en t dej mi amor
Mi gran amor soe que fueras tu
Cuando entraste en mi vida
Todo cambio
En ti deje mi amor
Hoy, un hombre nuevo soy
Por fn ests en mi interior
Y yo en t dej mi amor
En t dej mi amor
Y todo lo que soy,
Te entregaste a m sin condicin
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior
Y yo en t dej mi amor
En t dej mi amor
Y todo lo que soy,
Te entregaste a m sin condicin
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior,
En t dej, en t dej mi amoooor...
En ti deje mi amor
Hoy, un hombre nuevo soy
Te d me corazn
Sin saber llegaste a mi interior,
Y yo en t dej mi amor
Y yo en t dej mi amor
song performed by by Westlife
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The garden, by design, is concerned with both the interior and the land beyond the garden.
quote by Stephen Gardiner
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Homosapien
I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
And you know we're
Homosapien too
I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homosapien too
Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm Homosapien too
And you're Homosapien too
And we're Homosapiens too
And you're Homosapien too
And the world filled with age are a stage where we act out our lies
And the words in the script seem to fit 'cept we have some surprise
I just want this to last all our dreams dreaming past are all gone
And if this is the case then I'm losing trace from now on
I'm a shy boy
You're a coy boy
And you know we're
Homosapien too
I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Me and you sir
Homosapien too
Homosuperior
In my interior
But from the skin out
I'm Homosapien too
And you're Homosapien too
And we're Homosapiens too
And you're Homosapien too
And I think of your eyes in the dark and I see the star
When I look to the light and I might wonder right where you are
All the gods in the sky way up high see the earth spinning 'round
But the sun and the moon and the stars are so far from the ground
I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
Homosuperior
In my interior
Yeah I'm the cruiser
You're the loser
I'm the shy boy
You're the coy boy
Yeah I'm a shy boy
I'm a shy boy
Well I'm a shy boy
I'm a shy boy
Shy boy...
Shy boy...
song performed by by Simple Minds
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Survive Adult Life
Anastasia Krupnik asked open-ended questions
doing a project on her career, wanting to become
a bookstore owner to sell her dad’s poems; today
we did open-ended questions in French Class for
grown-ups - over the hill and almost lying in our
coffins already -
How to use open-ended questions reverberated in
sepulchral tones as we studied arranging a meeting
on interior decoration and preferred mode of trans-
portation - my favourite subjects - my brain, never
willingly cooperating, exploded; I managed to ask
closed questions
About paintings and cars, proving myself village
idiot again - flabbergasted to know we still have
to study the seeming preserve of primary school
students - proving that reading children’s books
is the only way to survive adult life; so bizarre -
mere words
Fail to express the absurdity of deciding what
to ask spoilt officials during an imaginary
meeting with disgruntled French civil
servants…
poem by Margaret Alice Second
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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.
Laurens Van der Post in Venture to the Interior (1951)
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Carla Cravens.Com
Do you wanna trip the light fantastic?
Or dance 'til the early morn?
How 'bout cruisin' the streets of Manhatten?
For it is here that a Design Goddess 'tis born;
Raising her star in New York City-
Carla 'tis Texas born and bred-
She is my very own Soul Daughter...!
With her creativity-to Park Avenue she is led;
Her most divine design 'tis splendiferous-
Her set design-a movie directors dream-
A Fashionista and Interior Maven-
I call her Manhattens reigning Queen;
Her name is Carla Cravens-
She has her hands in most every theme-
Why she is even into creating a movie short-
It is a true story about suicides horrific scene;
You can find her at: Carla Cravens.com...
And for me she will always be the queen of Interior Design-
From set design to magazine cover shoots she excels-
She is a most gifted talent and a gem of a find;
And so in a New York second may i suggest?
That you give this young Goddess a go?
She aims to please in varying decorating degrees-
With much verve and elan-her work just steals the show!
May 10,2010
poem by Theodora Onken
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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.
quote by Charles Sturt
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Interior Lulu
As you lie there on your bed
Beneath the face of louise brooks
With your makeup and your teddy bear
And your c.s. lewis books
Bad seed
Youre a bad seed
Youre a decadent in chrysalis
Waiting sleepily to emerge
When youll visit every seedy need
Of your random obsessive urge
All the ruses that you use
All the food that you refuse
All the dust and tired air that feeds interior lulus
All the poisoned attitudes
And the lust for the unknown
And the second best that devils use
To make this world their own
Interior lulu
Interior lulu
Every rainy day by e-mail
As you lie there on your bed
Another virtual page arrives
There will be times when you remember me
Of the chapters youll be writing
As the voices echo in your head
In the book called wasted lives
As you read henry and anais
All the lost weekends and booze
All the finger-and-thumb screws
All the sleepless worn out blues that bruise interior lulus
Interior lulu
Interior lulu
Use the anger
Paint a picture of it
Throw the colours
Use the pain, use the pain
Scream back a brand new emotion
As it runs across the skin
Fire across paper
Burn and curl, burn and curl
You thought you couldnt feel like this
But its happening again and youre waking up in pain
Tattooed in that private place
Microsoft and tears
Intimately pierced
Discovering and remembering
You felt like this somewhere before
Stirrin up the bed of the river
Somewhere you dont like to go
You wrote this down so many times
But you get up anyway and you write it down again
Youve bored us all to death with this
Well who you gonna tell
When youve nothing left to sell
She says shes lonely
She says she knows me
But shes a one-way street
She told me what I already know
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can carry it out you can take it away
If you can buy it, it can be bought
If you can buy it, it can be stolen
If you can break it
Its already broken
Lately, I can stand to hear other people talking
So many empty conversations
What a waste of lips
Lately I can stand to stand on primrose hill
Look down upon the city
A heart pumping the roads
In our racing stripes
We rejoice at being connected
Without touching
Thank God for the internet
We stare at our screens
All our lives
What a waste of eyes
till the electrical storm blows our fuses
And we gaze, dumbfounded, at the rain
All the trust and tired care
Left to rust and go nowhere
All this gold beneath my skin
Sparklin like sin somewhere within
In so deep
In so deep that
I cant sleep for these interior lu lu lu lu lus
song performed by by Marillion
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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
quote by Edward Burnett Tylor
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Movie Memories
Holding hands at the movies
waiting for the lights to dim.
Anticipating the characters on the screen
but thinking of only him.
The one beside you, not on the screen.
His arm now on your shoulder.
You feel the length of his arm.
He becomes a little bit bolder.
You see the characters on the screen.
All are playing their part.
You forget the name of the movie
but not what's happening to your heart.
The lights come on all too soon
but not before he kisses you.
Great to be a teen-ager.
Sorry, the movie is through.
poem by Edwina Reizer
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Barfly
Barfly.
Outside a bar, Bella Vista, in the sleepy town of Barranquilla-
Colombia- a donkey wore a hat with holes for its ears, dozed.
Hot day, its serenity was endless. Around its closed eyes blue
flies crawled. I’m kind to animals, waved my hand in front of
its eyes to get rid of flies. The beast saw it differently, kicked.
In the street only the donkey, me and the cruel midday sun,
everyone else had sought refuge the dark interior of houses.
Looked at the bar’s dark, cool interior, since the beast didn’t
care for my sympathy I limped back in there and had a beer.
poem by Oskar Hansen
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We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.
quote by Charles Sturt
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No Good (Attack The Radical)
In the states
There's a problem with race
Because of ignorant past burned fires
From evolution
We've been killing each other
I figure man should have it down to a science
No chance
Not for a minute
Not for a second
I won't be defensive
I'm straight out in my opinion
You'ld better listen to a man who knows what he is saying
I've seen your side
You run and hide for the mere fact that you feel inferior
Be superior
And know your interior
(Pre)
Race
song performed by by Pantera from Reinventing The Steel
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Who Court obtain within Himself
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Who Court obtain within Himself
Sees every Man a King—
And Poverty of Monarchy
Is an interior thing—
No Man depose
Whom Fate Ordain—
And Who can add a Crown
To Him who doth continual
Conspire against His Own
poem by Emily Dickinson
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Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
quote by Evelyn Underhill
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The politically correct fascists promote a concept of diversity that is its very antithesis. Contrary to the self-serving polemics advanced by intellectuals and artists who so completely dominate the societal conversation from their lofty pedestals in California or New York, genuine diversity is not contingent upon mere skin color, gender, or sexual preference. For example, a black farmer shares far more in common with his white counterpart than any black urban sophisticate. Or a female rancher more likely relates to a male cowboy than a female journalist based within a concrete jungle. Or a gay miner is bound to empathize far more with the daily preoccupations of a straight miner than a wealthy gay interior designer. Ultimately, genuine diversity derives primarily from differences of experience, location, vocation, viewpoints, or net worth. Those who imagine that genitalia, choice of bedmates, or mere skin pigment are the sole criteria for defining diversity are purely delusional. Essentially, in its current incarnation, diversity Is a scam, contrived by special interest groups to promote their parochial goals at the expense of all that is truly diverse.
quote by Catman Cohen (2017)
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Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
quote by Yehudi Menuhin
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