“Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
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Famous Diana Trilling Quotes
“Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.”
Source: We Must March My Darlings: A Critical Decade
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.”
Source: Claremont essays
“There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.”
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor
Source: Mrs. Harris: the death of the Scarsdale diet doctor