Short Path Distillation

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

    Kringelein: I’m going to live. I’m going to have a good time while I can.
    The Baron: That’s my motto, Kringelein. A short life and a gay one.
    William A. Drake (1900–1965)

    The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.
    —H.G. (Herbert George)

    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)