"Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches."

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Jane Jacobs

#Sentimentality Quotes

“Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. Thatâ€™s what's really cute to me.”
“The weddings that I've been in have been pretty mellow.”
“I think the forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse, amongst them cyber-terrorism, for example.”
“You cannot invent an algorithm that is as good at recommending books as a good bookseller, and that's the secret weapon of the bookstore - is that no algorithm will ever understand readers the way that other readers can understand readers.”
“A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics.”
“America is very conservative. It is not a very modern country. If you look at the population, they are very serious, very nice, very good people. I love the Americans. But they are too serious to be modern. But it's not too late. With the last election, America has proven that it's a very young country at heart. We have big hopes in the world that we can again love America for what it is.”
“I'm married, I'm monogamous, but I'm not dead, and Bill isn't either.”
“For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).”

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