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• Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you

  David Nicholls

  World, Dysentery, Call Me

  David Nicholls (2011). “One Day”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• The serious revolutionary, like the serious artist, can't afford to lead a sentimental or self-deceiving life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Artist, Self, Serious

  Adrienne Rich (2010). “A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008”, p.67, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Baby, Kissing, Koalas

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Ada or Ardor”, p.94, Penguin UK

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• She loved the sea for its storms alone, cared for vegetation only when it grew here and there among ruins. She had to extract a kind of personal advantage from things and she rejected as useless everything that promised no immediate gratification — for her temperament was more sentimental than artistic, and what she was looking for was emotions, not scenery.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Sea, Storm, Here And There

  Gustave Flaubert (1993). “Madame Bovary: Patterns of Provincial Life”, Everyman's Library

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• Perhaps when we're forced to forfeit what we own, we lose any sentimental associations. Perhaps pawning our valuables frees us in the same way a house fire destroys not only our worldly goods, but our attachment to what's gone.

  Sue Grafton

  Fire, Attachment, House

  Sue Grafton (2011). “V is for Vengeance”, p.196, Pan Macmillan

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• Don't get all sentimental on me, Makes me think I'm gonna die.

  Denzel Washington

  Thinking, Dies

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• Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

  Sylvia Plath

  Lying, Writing, Years

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.32, Anchor

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• I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.

  Christopher Fry

  Travel, Men, Light

  The Lady's not for Burning (1949) act 1

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• Compassion is not a sloppy sentimental feeling for people who are underprivileged or sick... it is an absolutely practical belief that regardless of a person's background, ability or ability to pay, he should be provided with the best that society has to offer.

  Neil Kinnock

  Inspirational, Compassion, Sick

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• As with the Princess Di crash, which sent the media on the most insane feeding frenzy. From the moment of the crash, the pornography of sentiment never let up.

  Barbara Kruger

  Princess, Media, Insane

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• It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live

  Sarah McLachlan

  Romantic, Writing, Thinking

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• A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

  L. Frank Baum

  Valentine, Heart, Remember

  "Fictional character: The Wizard of Oz". The Wizard of Oz, www.imdb.com. August 12, 1939.

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• To laugh is to risk appearing a fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

  William Arthur Ward

  Dream, Pain, Taken

  William Arthur Ward, “Risk”

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• Even if people laughed at the notion of goodness, if they found it sentimental, or nostalgic, it didn't matter -- it was none of those things, he said, and it had to be fought for.

  Colum McCann

  People, Matter, Nostalgic

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.128, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

  Tennessee Williams

  Memories, Play, Realistic

  Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.5, New Directions Publishing

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• I’ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better.

  Ray Bradbury

  Believe, Men, Emotional

  Tangent Interview, www.tangentonline.com. June 9, 2012.

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• [London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

  V. S. Pritchett

  Dog, Attitude, Character

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• It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter.

  Noel Coward

  Conceited, Discovery, Nuts

  Noel Coward (2008). “The Letters of Noel Coward”, p.39, Vintage

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• What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.

  Eddie Albert

  Important, Energy, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I guess I get a little sentimental, but I'm so used to moving on and making myself stronger where that's concerned, otherwise I would just be a wreck!

  Jeremy London

  Moving, Stronger, Wrecks

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• Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic, it's contextual, it's relational. It doesn't have a win-lose orientation. It taps into the cosmic computer - the field of pure potentiality, pure knowledge, and infinite organizing power - and takes everything into account. At times it may not even seem rational, but the heart has a computing ability that is far more accurate and far more precise than anything within the limits of rational thought.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Winning, Thinking

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.33, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ.
  The spirit of Christmas is annual;
  the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental;
  the Spirit of Christ is supernatural.
  The spirit of Christmas is a human product;
  the Spirit of Christmas is a divine person.
  That makes all the difference in the world.

  Stuart Briscoe

  Christmas, Differences, Needs

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• There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and even sentimental rot and drivel, have run riot to such an extent as here.

  Helen Thompson Woolley

  Running, Prejudice, Fields

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• I hope you will be yourself, human, even a little sentimental, possessed of a sense of humor and a sense of humility. . . . There are arrogant people in this world and, what is worse, arrogant judges.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Being Yourself, Humility, People

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• What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because he perceives that they are beautiful, and that it is touching and fine to say them,-things which he fain would feel, and fancies that he does feel.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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