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Sentimentality Quotes

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia Picture Quote #1

In the future I’m going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality Picture Quote #1

We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil Picture Quote #1

A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They're afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool' for the rest of their lives, until they're dead-then they're really cool Picture Quote #1

Those who based their lives on the unintelligence of sentimentality fight to save themselves with the unintelligence of brutality Picture Quote #1

Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented Picture Quote #1

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If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else’s experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought Picture Quote #1

Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality Picture Quote #1

Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can’t be ironic all the time Picture Quote #1

That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience Picture Quote #1

Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing Picture Quote #1

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside Picture Quote #1

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Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture Picture Quote #1

Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don’t take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action Picture Quote #1

I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love Picture Quote #1

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other Picture Quote #1

Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? Picture Quote #1

Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I’m writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true Picture Quote #1

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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia (Sentimentality Quotes) In the future I’m going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality (Sentimentality Quotes) We live in an age which eschews sentimentality as if it were a good deal more than the devil (Sentimentality Quotes) A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They're afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool' for the rest of their lives, until they're dead-then they're really cool (Sentimentality Quotes) Those who based their lives on the unintelligence of sentimentality fight to save themselves with the unintelligence of brutality (Sentimentality Quotes) Our quilts were more than useful, they had the faint sentimentality of a pressed flower. And no more beauty. We did not value them for their appearance, but for the memories in them, for their good wearing qualities and the thrift they represented (Sentimentality Quotes) If all issues are personalized, we lose our capacity to entertain ideas, to generalize from our own or someone else’s experiences, to think abstractly. We substitute sentimentality for thought (Sentimentality Quotes) Women and egoistic artists entertain a feeling towards science that is something composed of envy and sentimentality (Sentimentality Quotes) Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can’t be ironic all the time (Sentimentality Quotes) That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience (Sentimentality Quotes) Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one’s style, both of speaking and writing (Sentimentality Quotes) Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside (Sentimentality Quotes) Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture (Sentimentality Quotes) Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don’t take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into action (Sentimentality Quotes) I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love (Sentimentality Quotes) The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other (Sentimentality Quotes) Always retain the ability to walk away, without sentimentality, from a situation that felt unmanageable. That was a basic rule of survival. Don’t lift a finger for a lost cause (Sentimentality Quotes) 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 (Sentimentality Quotes) We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? (Sentimentality Quotes) Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed and when I’m writing, there are no bees to sting me out of my sentimentality. For me at least, fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into something true (Sentimentality Quotes)

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