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Sentimentality Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- Sentimentality , the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
- Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his…
- 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…
More Sentimentality Quotes
- In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. — William S. Burroughs
- Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. — Jean Cocteau
- You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up… — Maya Angelou
- The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much,… — P.J. O'Rourke
- Yes, I am my brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality… — Eugene V. Debs
- To the modern spirit, disillusioned, or at least unillusioned, the great evil to be avoided is sentimentality. — Irwin Edman
- We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value? — Jack Kornfield
- Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment,… — Carter Heyward