Sentimentality famous quotes

I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
-- Ellen Glasgow

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Because there is a fear of sentimentality, love is not very often addressed - and it is really the one motivation in all of our lives.
-- Helene Aylon

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Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.
-- Jane Jacobs

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Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
-- Leonora Carrington

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Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
-- Marc Webb

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Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality ...
-- Margaret Mead

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There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.
-- Max Beckmann

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I like emotions, but I really don't like sentimentality, and I don't like when things break their spell.
-- Tony Gilroy

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And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.
-- Toots Thielemans

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Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
-- Wallace Stevens

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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
-- William S. Burroughs

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There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
-- James Purdy

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