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Where there are children, people become neighbors; they don't merely hold property adjacent to one another.
Ideology is the sterner face of myth and we're a myth-making people.
I regard the whole of my life as having been lived in an anxious world.
Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.
The distinction that Jews have themselves always made between Jews of German origin and Jews of East European origin is as stringent as that between Boston Brahmin and Boston lace-curtain Irish, though much finer.
I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.
Surely going to bed with a man before marriage was the most courageous act of my life.
Long-married couples balance their checkbooks as a substitute for love-making, or they refuse each other love by protesting one another's financial error or excess.
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.
Wit isn't a useful instrument of defense; it may make a short-run appeal, but it creates a backlash- one saw this in the Hiss case and the Oppenheimer hearings; certainly one saw it in the trial of Oscar Wilde.
At best-which is to say, even where our knowledge of a case comes to us only through courtroom evidence-it is difficult for the legal process to keep us at a sanitizing distance from crimes of passion.
Whoever had known sexual jealousy, that most destructive of emotions-and this would be so for men no less than women-had known madness and had now to know sympathy for someone who had been carried by jealousy this one terrible step too far, to murder.
We lived our lives as if life was forever. To live one's life without a sense of time is to squander it.
