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[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 itself had been injured.

Diana Trilling's Popular Quotes

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

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

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

- Diana Trilling

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

- Diana Trilling

There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.

- 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 …

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Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.

- 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