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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/behind-the-contained-and-orderly-lives-we-lead-as-members-of-the/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

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## More by Diana Trilling

> [The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/the-distinction-that-jews-have-themselves-always-made-between-jews-of/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/at-best-which-is-to-say-even-where-our-knowledge-of-a-case-comes-to/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/ideology-is-the-sterner-face-of-myth-and-we-re-a-myth-making-people/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/surely-going-to-bed-with-a-man-before-marriage-was-the-most/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/we-lived-our-lives-as-if-life-was-forever-to-live-one-s-life-without/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking about each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/in-the-bad-sixties-when-drugs-came-into-widespread-use-among/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [“At a time in our culture when violence was achieving a new legitimacy as a form of public assertion, there was perhaps a special…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/at-a-time-in-our-culture-when-violence-was-achieving-a-new-legitimacy/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/long-married-couples-balance-their-checkbooks-as-a-substitute-for/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/where-there-are-children-people-become-neighbors-they-don-t-merely/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/wit-isn-t-a-useful-instrument-of-defense-it-may-make-a-short-run/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/behind-the-contained-and-orderly-lives-we-lead-as-members-of-the/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [ \[On Marilyn Monroe:\] I think my response to her death was the common one: it came to me with the impact of a personal… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/on-marilyn-monroe-i-think-my-response-to-her-death-was-the-common-one/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/whoever-had-known-sexual-jealousy-that-most-destructive-of-emotions/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/touch-a-university-with-hostile-hands-and-the-blood-you-draw-is/)

[Diana Trilling](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/diana-trilling/)

> [There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/diana-trilling/there-s-much-to-be-said-for-challenging-fate-instead-of-ducking/)

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