Privacy, after all, was the most relative of privileges. It was granted us by society under ungenerous conditions, the most fundamental of them that whether for pain or profit, by design or accident, we not call public attention to ourselves.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
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 …
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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