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 case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde. — 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
![“[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…” 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)