Best Distilled Sayings
73 Distilled quotes by 66 unique authors
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Drunkeness, she told us in a rare moment of confidence, is a sin against the fruit, the tree, the wine itself. Wine, distilled and nurtured…
— Joanne Harris
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...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured…
— James Agee
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I wondered why it had to be so poisonous. Oleanders could live through anything, they could stand heat, drought, neglect, and put out thousands of…
— Janet Fitch
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I was struck with a bolt of distilled horror like I have never known before. Far worse than suddenly finding yourself walking through a prison…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms. It…
— Pat Barker
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For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located…
— Sting
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Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Now I’m just standing here on the conveyor. Along for the ride. I reach the end, turn around, and go back the other way. The…
— Isaac Marion
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The sky is purple, the flare of a match behind a cupped hand is gold; the liquor is green, bright green, made from a thousand…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything…
— John Green
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.
— John Green
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It was so good to be held. If only their relationship could be distilled into simple, wordless gestures of comfort. Why had humans ever learned…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as…
— Thomas Sowell
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Art Is a Way Out. Do not let life overwhelm you. When the old paths are choked with the débris of failure, look for newer…
— Nathanael West
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We all know grandparents whose values transcend passing fads and pressures, and who possess the wisdom of distilled pain and joy.
— Jimmy Carter
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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…
— Jenny Offill
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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.
— Gretchen Rubin
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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…
— Suzanne Collins
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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass…
— Robert Hall
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Metallica mythos...distilled the essences of the comic books and horror movies and the fantastic literature of metal itself...
— Lars Ulrich
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A kiss is a love story distilled into a single moment.
— Cristina Orante
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Don't use tap water to make your colloidal silver. Use pure distilled water only. And don't take very large dosages or strong concentrations for long…
— Stan Jones
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The defence of a stalker or jealous abuser, on facing an assault charge, than a quotationof distilled wisdom!
— Mak_786
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