There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.
Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Love liberates. Love - not sentimentality, not mush - but true love gives you enough courage that you can say to somebody, "Don't do that, baby. " And the person will know you're not preaching but teaching.
They are a special breed-like normal accountants, but without the soppy sentimentality. These are the oncologists of market capitalism.
Children's books are looked on as a sideline of literature. A special smile. They are usually thought to be associated with women. I was determined not to have this label of sentimentality put on me so I signed by my intials, hoping people wouldn't bother to wonder if the books were written by a man, woman or kangaroo.
There's really nothing wrong with sentimentality. . . Nothing I wrote is sentimental.
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.
Sentimentality is unearned emotion.
Sentimentality and emotionalism have nothing whatsoever to do with love.
In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality. It is as final as the mountains: a fact. There it is. When you realize it you cannot complain.
I can't think of another attitude to have toward an audience than a hopeful and positive one. And if that includes such unfashionable things as sentimentality, well, I can afford it.
The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.
By destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates a proletariat. . . Furthermore the famine can and should be a progressive factor not only economically. It will force the peasant to reflect on the bases of the capitalist system, demolish faith in the tsar and tsarism, and consequently in due course make the victory of the revolution easier. . . Psychologically all this talk about feeding the starving and so on essentially reflects the usual sugary sentimentality of our intelligentsia.
Sentimentality, like pornography, is fragmented emotion; a natural consequence of a high visual gradient in any culture.
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.
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.
Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.
