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For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty.


William S. Burroughs


#mothers #neglect #old-age #parents #sentimentality

...men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.


Will Christopher Baer


#men #pain #sentimentality #men

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.


James Baldwin


#admire #america #because #been #his

It's not good to make sentimental journeys. You see the differences instead of the sameness.


Mary Astor


#good #instead #journeys #make #sameness

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.


Charles Bukowski


#sentimentality #weep #weeping #love

Go where we may, rest where we will, Eternal London haunts us still.


Thomas Moore


#sentimental #london

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.


Berkeley Breathed


#because #bit #child #drew #ever

The thing with Disney songs is they're very manipulative, very sentimental, but they do get you, you know - there's a kind of sadness to them and that kind of music doesn't really exist any more.


Jarvis Cocker


#disney #exist #get #kind #know

The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.


Frank Herbert


#away #being #between #difference #driver

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.


William S. Burroughs


#place #sadness #sentimentality






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