“ No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is! Sheri S. Tepper
“ Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact. H.L. Mencken
“ If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable b… Richard Hofstadter
“ For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I re… William S. Burroughs
“ Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot reall… Timothy Keller
“ I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental. David Foster Wallace
“ I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only thing one can be nostalgic about. James Rozoff
“ Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faintly sinister—that redolence of moral blackmail that adheres to certain charitable appeals and certain… Christopher Hitchens
“ I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love. Charles Bukowski
