#distill

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

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A beverage of leisure is a serious business,” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer. ↗

— Jeff Phillips

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I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ↗

— Tom Verlaine

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Poetry is life distilled. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#life #poetry

There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ↗

— Ovid

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Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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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 of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

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