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Sentimentality Quotes

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.

Leonora Carrington
Form, Fatigue, Sentimentality

There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.

Woodrow Wilson
Moral, Subtle, Sentimentality
Woodrow Wilson, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1974). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.

Jiddu Krishnamurti
Semantics, Sentimentality

Sentimentality is unearned emotion.

James Joyce
Sentimental, Emotion, Sentimentality

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

William S. Burroughs
Grief, Sadness, Sentimentality
"Queer: A Novel". Book by William S. Burroughs, 1985.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.

Wallace Stevens
Feelings, Emotion, Sentimentality
1957 Opus Posthumous, Aphorisms,'Adagia'.

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

Ellen Glasgow
Sentimental, Sentimentality

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.

Jane Jacobs
Sentimentality
Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.447, Vintage

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

J. D. Salinger
Doe, Loving Something, Sentimentality

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

Mason Cooley
Want, Sentimental, Sentimentality

Cynicism is the other thing that goes with sentimentality.

Margaret Mead
Cynicism, Sentimentality

Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

Marc Webb
Earnestness, Sentimentality
"Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.

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

James Purdy
Sentimental, Sentimentality
Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

Anne Frank
Reality, More Time, Sentimentality
Anne Frank (2011). “The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition”, p.25, Bantam

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