#sentimentality

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

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

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#place #sadness #sentimentality

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

— E. M. Forster

#love #lust #only #sentimentality #struggle

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

Sentimentality is intolerable because it is false feeling. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#false #feeling #intolerable #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

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

— Norman Mailer

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#rubs #sentiment #sentimentality #way #wrong

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

— Graham Greene

#sentiment #sentimentality #share