Diana Trilling (1905–96) was an American literary critic and author, one of the New York Intellectuals. Born Diana Rubin, she married the literary and cultural critic Lionel Trilling in 1929. Her parents, Sadie and Joseph Rubin, were Polish Jews, her father from Warsaw and her mother from the local countryside.
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There’s much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
—Diana Trilling
Topics: Fate
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