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