#sentimentality

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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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

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Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimental, and yet, I am conscious of my sentimentality. ↗

— Robert Frank

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Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

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The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons. ↗

— Michael Lewis

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Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. ↗

— Norman Mailer

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Sentimentality - that's what we call the sentiment we don't share. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. ↗

— Timothy Keller

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My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

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