Sentimentality Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Sports, Baseball, Father

  "Michael Lewis on Moneyball". Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. June 16, 2003.

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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

  Strong, Believe, Ifs

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• There's nothing I hate more than nothing.

  Edie Brickell

  Hate, I Hate, Appetizers

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

  Graham Greene

  Relationship, Communication, Sentimental

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• There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.

  Max Beckmann

  Hate, I Hate, Appetizers

  Max Beckmann, Barbara Copeland Buenger (1997). “Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950”, p.183, University of Chicago Press

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• 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

  True Love, Believe, Pride

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

  E. M. Forster

  Struggle, Lust, Together

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• 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

  Song, Suffering, Sides

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• When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.

  Alice Hamilton

  Silence, Textbooks, Magazines

  Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.93, Read Books Ltd

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

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Thinking, Trying, Truthful

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• There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.

  Jane Jacobs

  Nature, Ideas, Champion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.445, Vintage

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• In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.

  William S. Burroughs

  Sadness, Mountain, Complaining

  William S Burroughs (2012). “Queer: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.141, Penguin UK

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• 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.

  Mark Helprin

  Hate, Real, Hero

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• The trumped-up charges against kitsch and sentimentality should disturb us and make us suspicious.

  Robert C. Solomon

  Kitsch, Should, Suspicious

  Robert C. Solomon (2004). “In Defense of Sentimentality”, p.253, Oxford University Press

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• Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.

  Norman Maclean

  Missing, Fantasy, Willing

  Norman Maclean (2010). “Young Men and Fire”, p.46, University of Chicago Press

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• One swing set, well worn but structurally sound, seeks new home. Make memories with your kid or kids so that someday he or she or they will look into the backyard and feel the ache of sentimentality as desperately as I did this afternoon. It's all fragile and fleeting, dear reader, but with this swing set, your child(ren) will be introduced to the ups and downs of human life gently and safely, and may also learn the most important lesson of all: No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way around.

  John Green

  Truth, Memories, Children

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• Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Problem, Critics

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• India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Heart, Pride, Generosity

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.

  Marc Webb

  Earnestness

  "Interview: Marc Webb Talks 500 Days Of Summer, Cheesy Vs. Lame, Zooey, And Sundance". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. July 17, 2009.

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• We are dying of preconceptions, outworn rules, decaying flags, venomous religions, and sentimentalities. We need a new world. We've wrenched up all the old roots. The old men have no roots. They don't know it. They just go on talking and flailing away and falling down on the young with their tons of dead weight and their power. For the power is still there, in their life-in-death. But the roots are dead, and the land is poisoned for miles around them.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Fall, Power, Men

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

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• Profound as race prejudice is against the Negro American, it is not practically as far-reaching as the prejudice against women. For stripping away the sentimentality which makes Mother's Day and Best American Mother Contests, the truth is that women suffer all the effects of a minority.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Mother, Race, Profound

  Pearl S. Buck (1941). “Of Men and Women”

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• It would be very easy to drool with sentimentality over the Ryder Cup. But, at the end of the day, it is simply two teams trying to knock seven bells out of each other, in the nicest possible way.

  Peter Alliss

  Team, Two, The End Of The Day

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• Oh any sentimental person can cry at night, but when you begin to cry in the morning - to lie awake and cry in the morning-.

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

  Morning, Lying, Night

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (2012). “The Sick-a-Bed Lady: And Other Tales”, p.45, The Floating Press

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• In times of war, as everyone knows, who has lived through one, or talked to soldiers when they are allowing themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ... in times of war we revert, as a species, to the past, and are permitted to be brutal and cruel. It is for this reason, and of course others, that a great many people enjoy war. But this is one of the facts about war that is not often talked about.

  Doris Lessing

  War, Past, People

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• I think it's very disheartening and undermining to focus on nostalgia or youthful sentimentality as the lens through which you view art and culture, because then you feel like everything good already happened. I really just try to be in the present with music and just find the things that are invigorating and make me feel happy to be alive right now.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Art, Thinking, Views

  "'Portlandia' Duo Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein Discuss the Secrets to the Cult Show's Success". Interview with Marlow Stern, www.thedailybeast.com. February 27, 2014.

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