"We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it."

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Source : Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt

Diana Trilling

#Forever Quotes

“Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart.”
“Whenever something good happens to me, I try-it may sound kind of bad-to think a little negative. I just always try to keep myself grounded.”
“There is but one evil, ignorance.”
“As long as you think the problem is out there, that very thought is the problem”
“There is no chiropractic treatment, no Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel, that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony of making bread.”
“Service is not something we endure on this earth so we can earn the right to live in the celestial kingdom. Service is the very fiber of which an exalted life in the celestial kingdom is made.”
“I love soap operas - the stories, the plots! And I love the game shows and the courtroom dramas and the detectives - Jessica Fletcher, 'Columbo,' 'Perry Mason,' 'L.A. Law.' Any sense of guilt appeals to me in a television program - a sense of guilt, or a sense of making a lot of money.”
“We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.”

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