Simple Distillation

Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or distillation:

    Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)