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Letter "D" » distilled
«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.»
Author: Carson McCullers
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Writer)
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About:
Mind
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Keywords:
colors,
convolution,
convolutions,
design,
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drawn,
richly,
tapestry,
the senses,
woven
«I became a virtuoso of deceit. It wasn't pleasure I was after, it was knowledge. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think and novelists to see what I could get away with. And, in the end, I distilled everything down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.»
Author: Christopher Hampton
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Keywords:
consulted,
deceit,
distilled,
get away,
moralist,
moralists,
Novelists,
philosophers,
pleasure principle,
strictest,
virtuosi,
virtuoso,
wonderfully
«A play is fiction-and fiction is fact distilled into truth.»
«I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.»
«Poetry is life distilled.»
«Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.»
«Glass of brandy and water! That is the current but not the appropriate name: ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation»
Author: Robert Hall
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Keywords:
appropriate,
ask for,
brandies,
brandy,
current,
damnation,
distill,
distilled,
distilling,
distills,
Fire and Water,
liquid,
liquids,
The Current
«There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.»
Author: Ovid
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Author,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alcohol,
briefest,
distill,
distilled,
distilling,
distills,
nap,
napping,
Naps,
refreshment,
refreshments,
stimulation
«Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers»