Short Path Distillation

Famous quotes containing the words short, path and/or distillation:

    I had some short struggle in my mind whether I should resign my lover or my liberty, but this lasted not long. I found myself as free as air and could not bear the thought of putting myself in any man’s power for life only from a present capricious inclination.
    Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)

    I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.
    Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

    In this century the writer has carried on a conversation with madness. We might almost say of the twentieth-century writer that he aspires to madness. Some have made it, of course, and they hold special places in our regard. To a writer, madness is a final distillation of self, a final editing down. It’s the drowning out of false voices.
    Don Delillo (b. 1926)