Zitat des Tages über Destilliert / Distilled:
I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.
A play is fiction - and fiction is fact distilled into truth.
I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects.
Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
Poetry is life distilled.
If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.
America is the spirit of human exploration distilled.
I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
A proverb is much matter distilled into few words.
She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.
The greatest work of art about New York? The question seems nebulous. The city's magic and majesty are distilled in the photographs of Alfred Stieglitz and Paul Strand.
All tyrannies are virtuoso displays, over many years, of cunning, risk-taking, terror, delusion, narcissism, showmanship, and charm, distilled into a spectacle of total personal control.
Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots.
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect.
Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.
I have a slightly contrarian streak as a writer, and one of the things I was interested in was how distilled could I make a life, and how I could cross what is kind of trivialized as a domestic novel with a novel of ideas, a philosophical novel.