The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent… — Diana Trilling Boston 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… — Diana Trilling Cases Copy Share Image
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. — Diana Trilling Faces Copy Share Image
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life. — Diana Trilling Bed 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 Forever 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… — Diana Trilling Asking 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… — Diana Trilling Habits 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… — Diana Trilling Balance Copy Share Image
Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another. — Diana Trilling Children 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… — Diana Trilling Appeals 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… — Diana Trilling Behinds 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… — Diana Trilling Actors Copy Share Image
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness… — Diana Trilling Destructive Copy Share Image
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. — Diana Trilling Blood Copy Share Image
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. — Diana Trilling Action Copy Share Image
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner. — Diana Trilling Breakfast Copy Share Image
Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling Alcoholism Copy Share Image
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world. — Diana Trilling Anxious Copy Share Image
Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of… — Diana Trilling Accidents Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Arrogant Copy Share Image
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