Diana Trilling Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: July 21, 1905 - October 23, 1996
Birthday: July 21
Death: October 23
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.
source: Diana Trilling (1993). “The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling”, Harcourt
topic: Careers, Arrogant, May, Common Courtesy, Overbearing
