#sentimentality

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. ↗

— James Baldwin

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Sentimentality is a form of fatigue. ↗

— Leonora Carrington

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And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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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

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

— نجيب محفوظ

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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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