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«I travel light; as light, / That is, as a man can travel who will / Still carry his body around because / Of its sentimental value.»
«Love, love, love -- all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.»
«Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.»
Author: Helen Merell Lynd
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
irresponsibility, sentimental, spontaneity, valid, whimsical
«Popcorn [is] the sentimental good-time Charlie of American foods.»
«Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.»
Author: Sharon Salzberg
| Keywords:
sentimental
«Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Emotion
| Keywords:
blackmail, blackmailed, obtained, of value, resulting, sentimental
«Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves»
Author: Karl Kraus
(Critic, Journalist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
bays, Graves, ironies, irony, pissing, sentimental
«MAGDALENE, n. An inhabitant of Magdala. Popularly, a woman found out. This definition of the word has the authority of ignorance, Mary of Magdala being another person than the penitent woman mentioned by St. Luke. It has also the official sanction of the governments of Great Britain and the United States. In England the word is pronounced Maudlin, whence maudlin, adjective, unpleasantly sentimental. With their Maudlin for Magdalene, and their Bedlam for Bethlehem, the English may justly boast themselves the greatest of revisers.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, Bedlam, Bethlehem, Bethlehem To, boast, Britain, government officials, government of the United, government of the United States, Great Britain, inhabitant, justly, Luke, Mary, maudlin, mentioned, official, penitent, popularly, pronounced, sanction, sentimental, St Luke, The Authority, unpleasantly, whence
«I am deeply touched - not as deeply touched as you have been coming to this dinner, but nevertheless it is a sentimental occasion»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
dinner, nevertheless, occasion, sentimental, touched
«I want to do drawings which touch people...In figure or landscape I should wish to express, not sentimental melancholy, but serious sorrow.»
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