48 Quotes About Sentimentality
- Author Melina Marchetta
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One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.
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- Author Naguib Mahfouz
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It's a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.
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- Author Todd M. Brenneman
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Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so fiction became a medium for authors to appeal to audiences for change.
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- Author Leslie Jamison
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Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say it new! Say it new!" It's hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to feel excessive if its rendering is suitably opaque. Metaphors translate emotion into surprising and sublime language, but they also help us deflect and diffuse the glare of revelation.
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- Author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
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Heroes have always been monsters who crushed sentimentalism underfoot.
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- Author Jennifer Worth
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She approached them all without a trace of sentimentality or condescension. The older Docklanders were accustomed to meeting middle-class do-gooders, who deigned to act graciously to inferiors. The Cockneys despised these people, used them for what they could get, and made fun of them behind their backs, but Sister Evangelina had no patronising airs and graces.
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- Author Alice Hoffman
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She, who prided herself on her tough exterior, could always be undone by the beauty of flight.
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- Author Elizabeth Goudge
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Being ill makes you feel what well people call sentimental, but what you feel is nonetheless genuine whatever they call it.
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- Author Kate Morton
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Elodie was a nostalgic person, but she hated the charge. The word was terribly maligned. People used it as a stand-in for sentimentality, when it wasn’t that at all. Sentimentality was mawkish and cloying, where nostalgia was acute and aching. It described yearning of the most profound kind: an awareness that time’s passage could not be stopped and there was no going back to reclaim a moment or a person or do things differently.
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