Sentimental Quote by James Purdy Download Open image “There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality... Nothing I wrote is sentimental.” — James Purdy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Sentimental Sentimentality
Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Sentimentality is a basking in feelings that in reality you don't take seriously enough to make the slightest sacrifice to or ever translate into… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
I don't want my poems to be sentimental, though I do acknowledge that sentiment is probably rather under-reported in a lot of people's feelings… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I distinguish sentiment from sentimentality. Sentimentality makes your skin crawl. It's like too much sugar. But, sentiment is a great feeling. — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“Pleasure died forty years ago in America, perhaps further back, in a wave of carbon monoxide, gasoline, cigarettes for dames, the belief in everything… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I am against all machines. It's no wonder that so many Americans go on dope when they have no other cultural stimulus than a… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
There's the world of the newspapers. They believe that what is happening is happening, which is so naïve. Because they're the first to turn… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Margaret Meade is always running around saying that marijuana's just like bread and water! Well, bread and water are poison, and marijuana's a poison.… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
“Writing is like a battle. You’re often so into it you don’t have any high ideals. You’re just doing it. I have all these… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
Television masturbates its audience even though the audience is not really watching. It masturbates orifices the audience doesn't have. It sticks holes in the… — James Purdy Copy Share Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Without sounding overly sentimental about the process, I'd say trying to describe how you tend to conceive of a book is like describing how… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It's my feeling that any writer can get an emotion into a story without being sentimental as long as the emotion is dealt with… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I love being sentimental and remembering things. I literally am a sentimentalist. — Noah Centineo Copy Share Image
