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Diana Trilling Quotes

1905–1996 United States

Diana Trilling (née Rubin; July 21, 1905 – October 23, 1996) was an American literary critic and author, one of a group of left-wing writers informally known as the New York Intellectuals.

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Multiculturalism is our present-day version of Stalinism — a culture of moral virtue without any thought.

It seemed to me, ruled my writing, whatever its subject: my belief that even in an unsatisfactory society the individual is best defined by his social geography.

We Must March My Darlings (1977)

What I have found in life-it makes me very sad-is that one friend sustains me in one direction, another in another direction. What's missing are the friends who sustain one altogether.

We Must March My Darlings (1977)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Diana Trilling (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.