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Diana Trilling Quotes

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it Picture Quote #1

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write Picture Quote #1

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner Picture Quote #1

I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world Picture Quote #1

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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 overwhelm any of us Picture Quote #1

Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don’t merely hold property adjacent to one another Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real Picture Quote #1

We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one’s life without a sense of time is to squander it Picture Quote #1

Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life Picture Quote #1

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In paradoxical fashion she had always been a woman who easily made friends and yet was friendless Picture Quote #1

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner Picture Quote #1

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Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals (Diana Trilling Quotes) 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 (Diana Trilling Quotes) There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it (Diana Trilling Quotes) Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write (Diana Trilling Quotes) I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner (Diana Trilling Quotes) I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world (Diana Trilling Quotes) 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 overwhelm any of us (Diana Trilling Quotes) Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don’t merely hold property adjacent to one another (Diana Trilling Quotes) 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 (Diana Trilling Quotes) Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real (Diana Trilling Quotes) 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 Quotes) Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life (Diana Trilling Quotes) In paradoxical fashion she had always been a woman who easily made friends and yet was friendless (Diana Trilling Quotes) Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner (Diana Trilling Quotes)