Diana Trilling was a prominent literary critic and essayist in the United States. Born on July 21, 1905, and passing away on October 23, 1996, she was known for her insightful analyses of American literature and her influential role in shaping literary criticism during the mid-20th century.
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“Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals.”
Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“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