We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write. - Diana Trilling
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.
- Diana Trilling
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world. - Diana Trilling
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
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 Oppenheime… - 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 case and the Oppenheime…
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it. - Diana Trilling
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner. - Diana Trilling
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people. - Diana Trilling
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between … - 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 between …
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
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real. - Diana Trilling
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.
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