Famous quotes containing the words simple and/or distillation:
“For I ... maintain God’s existence, and that he is a most pure, and most simple corporeal spirit.”
—Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)
“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)