Quotes by Diana Trilling

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 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.

Death

Loss

Thinking

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.

Couple

Errors

Marriage

My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and – this particularly attracted me – they were proof against cant.

Arrogant

Careers

May

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

Bed

Before Marriage

Women

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

Blood

Hands

Real

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it.

Forever

Ifs

Our Lives

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 Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

Defense

Running

Saws

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

Failing

Writing

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Quotes by Diana Trilling

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.

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

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

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it.

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 Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

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