Sentimentality Quotes - Page 5

• I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling.

  Josh Radnor

  Feelings, Skins, Sugar

  "Josh Radnor Exclusive Interview HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 1, 2011.

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• It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Mother, Fighting, Way

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• Contemporary movies just drive me crazy. The violence and the sentimentality and the spiritual materialism and Theism and the incredible indulgence in ignorance is so claustrophobic.

  Anne Waldman

  Spiritual, Crazy, Ignorance

  Source: www.poetspath.com

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• Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Age, Facts

  Theodore Roosevelt (2004). “Letters and Speeches”

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• I was not exploiting any real individual's story in writing ROOM, of course I was aware that my novel, by commenting on such situations, would run the risk of falling into those traps of voyeurism, sensationalism and sentimentality.

  Emma Donoghue

  Running, Real, Fall

  "Emma Donoghue Chats About "Room". Interview with Macy Halford, www.newyorker.com. January 21, 2011.

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• Sentimentality is the respect the cold-hearted pay to feeling.

  Mason Cooley

  Respect, Heart, Feelings

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• The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

  Mason Cooley

  Want, Sentimental

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• That is mere sentimentality that lies abed by day and thinks itself white, far from the tan and callus of experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Thinking, White

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

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• I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

  Charles Bukowski

  Possible Love, Inches, Ashamed

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.113, Canongate Books

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• 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.

  Judith Ellen Foster

  Sweet, Powerful, Home

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• Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.

  Jean Maalouf

  Kindness, Genuine Love, Justice

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• Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Emotion, Natural

  "Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting". Book by Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, January 1968.

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• I don't like mushiness. I'm a very emotional person but I hate sentimentality. I don't like great demonstrations of emotion. But as I'm getting older, I'm getting much more open about all that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Hate, Emotional, Getting Older

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• The romanticism and sentimentality in the relationship between Paris and Berlin is likely to vanish. It's the way it is with an old, married couple, although the established habits will remain in place.

  Max Gallo

  Couple, Paris, Way

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I have a horror of sentimentality, and I cannot forget that its name is Saint-Saëns.

  Claude Debussy

  Names, Saint, Horror

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• I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

  Charles Kuralt

  Thinking, Stories, Lines

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• I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge

  Real, Writing, Love And Friendship

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I would say that love today is a relatively rare phenomenon, that we have a great deal of sentimentality; we have a great deal of illusion about love, namely as a... as something one falls in.

  Erich Fromm

  Fall, Today, Illusion

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.

  Steve Erickson

  Thinking, Wind, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the "dumb" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive.

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Song, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind of a clean access to it in one way. It's also a war that represents a failure for the United States. Many people came back feeling like they never wanted to talk about it again. And so we developed a national amnesia.

  Ken Burns

  War, Interesting, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In the reading and writing life, delight, for me, is where the mystery lies. Easy enough to figure out how scenes of violence or tragedy or titillation or grossness or even sentimentality can move us, but how the written word elicits delight - what Nabokov calls that shiver in the spine - is much harder to calculate and define.

  Alice McDermott

  Lying, Reading, Moving

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have complicated feelings about nostalgia. I think that sometimes it can be dangerous. It can airbrush the truth, or fictionalize the truth, which leads to the worst kind of sentimentality. But I'm also a sentimental person who feels quite a bit of nostalgia.

  Will Sheff

  Thinking, Feelings, Sentimental

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I love things that are brave enough to be nakedly about what our lives are actually built of, when you're wild about someone, or you love something, or you're a fool, or you embarrass yourself. And I don't think the answer is cynicism. Cynicism is not the cure for sentimentality. Cynicism is its own form of sentimentality. For example, I tried to watch Breaking Bad. After three episodes, I thought, I don't like this guy. I don't care about him. But you can see why people tell themselves that they think this is real. But real doesn't mean bad.

  Daniel Mendelsohn

  Real, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Human beings really are this virus upon the earth, and the earth's running a fever, you know? If you step away from that kind of inherent human sentimentality and just look at it neutrally, the universe is neutral morally.

  Eef Barzelay

  Running, Being Real, Earth

  Source: www.avclub.com

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