Blood Quote 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…

— 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…

— Diana Trilling

Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.

— Diana Trilling

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.

— 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.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— Diana Trilling

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Diana Trilling