My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had… — Diana Trilling Copy Share
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling Copy Share
