Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or distillation:
“The simple believe everything, but the clever consider their steps.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 14:15.
“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)