Myth Making Quotes by Diana Trilling

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Diana Trilling has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
• We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
• Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
• Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness…
• 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 distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent…
• 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…
• Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may…
• Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.
• Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of…
• In the bad sixties, when drugs came into widespread use among adolescents and when Scarsdale mothers developed the habit of not asking…
• Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in…

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