#sentimentality

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

— Norman Mailer

#promiscuity #sentiment #sentimentality #those #who

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#rubs #sentiment #sentimentality #way #wrong

It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind. ↗

— نجيب محفوظ

#heart #sentimentality #skepticism #skepticism

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

#marriage #sentimentality #tim-keller #truth #love

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

— Ernest Hemingway

#hemingway #sentimentality-cruelty-ideology #men

Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world. ↗

— ryan fitzpatrick

#algorithm #coalescence #copulation #flarf #inheritance-cycle

I believe that the reason why I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective. There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#forces #hate #i #i believe #i believe that

There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#i #more #nothing #sentimentality #than

When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor. ↗

— Alice Hamilton

#american #feminine #friends #gained #here

Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches. ↗

— Jane Jacobs

#everything #nature #sentimentality #touches