#sentimentality

The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#happiness #hope #sentimentality #wishes #wishing

In dread fear of sentimentality, another thing true is not said-that for its staff the paper is a source of pride and, I do believe, an object of affection and-yes, love. ↗

— Arthur Ochs Sulzberger

#another #believe #dread #fear #i

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

— Tony Gilroy

#emotions #i #like #really #sentimentality

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

#baseball #deeply #fan #fathers #rooted

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

— Graham Greene

#sentiment #sentimentality #share

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

...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

I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I didn't want any more Jewish sentimentality and Jewish suffering. I was sickened by our sad songs. ↗

— Lionel Blue

#fear #fed #fed up #i #jewish

The poet must decide not to impose his feelings in order to write without sentimentality. ↗

— John Barton

#feelings #his #impose #must #order

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

#am #conscious #i #i always #i am