“How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.”
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Source: Literary essays; Among my books, My study windows, Fireside travels
“There is no more subtle dissolvent of morals than sentimentality.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
Source: John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings
“I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.”
“I don't trust sentimentality in men; it goes with tyranny; you can't have one without the other.”
“Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”
Source: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
“Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.”
“There is nothing I hate more than sentimentality.”
Source: Self-Portrait in Words: Collected Writings and Statements, 1903-1950
“Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.”