"You can't be deep without a surface"

--

Jonathan Lethem

#Surface Quotes

“The impressions of childhood are never obliterated.”
“I say, the acknowledgment of God in ChristAccepted by thy reason, solves for theeAll questions in the earth and out of it,And has so far advanced thee to be wise.”
“In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.”
“Well, there are three different processes of making a film, of course. They're sort of re-written three times. You write it to start with, and then you shoot it and you re-write it while shooting and you sort of re-write it as you edit.”
“Idealistic producing is safe. Sensibly projected in the theater, the fine thing always does pay and always will.”

Source : Minnie Maddern Fiske, Alexander Woollcott (1917). “Mrs. Fiske: Her Views on Actors, Acting, and the Problems of Production”
“I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.”
“I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.”
“My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.”

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