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… — 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 Image
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 Image
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
[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 Image
![“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special pathos in the idea of a woman so obviously foreign to extreme behavior, whose life had been dedicated to respectability and convention, being suddenly driven to such desperate conduct. [Jean Harris's] action spoke of depths of suffering and despair far beyond what most of us are pushed to though surely of the same basic stuff as the everyday pain that’s woven into our experience. It forced upon us a fresh realization that 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 overwhelm any of us.” quote by Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/613/diana-trilling-27127_habits_at-a-time-in-our-culture-when-violence-w_646900.jpg)
![“[On Marilyn Monroe:] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal deprivation but I also felt it as I might a catastrophe in history or in nature; there was less in life, there was less of life, because she had ceased to exist. In her loss life itself had been injured.” quote by Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/656/diana-trilling-27127_actors_on-marilyn-monroe-i-think-my-response-to_998376.jpg)