{"quotes":[{"text":"The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["birthday","happiness","hope","sentimentality","wishes","wishing"],"id":19593,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"},{"text":"High culture is paranoid about sentiment, but human beings are intensely sentimental. And if art doesn’t speak language that’s acceptable to people, it relegates itself to obscurity.","author":"Thomas Kinkade","tags":["art","sentimentality"],"id":35834,"author_id":"Thomas+Kinkade"},{"text":"...Men are much softer than women, more sentimental. They cry at the movies and pretend not to. The male of the species is weak. He doesn’t tolerate pain well.","author":"Will Christopher Baer","tags":["emotions","men","pain","sentimentality"],"id":66284,"author_id":"Will+Christopher+Baer"},{"text":"One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.","author":"Melina Marchetta","tags":["rules","sentimentality"],"id":71721,"author_id":"Melina+Marchetta"},{"text":"No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!","author":"Sheri S. Tepper","tags":["false-hope","lies","romance","sentimentality"],"id":83956,"author_id":"Sheri+S.+Tepper"},{"text":"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 but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.","author":"Richard Hofstadter","tags":["anti-intellectualism","character","democracy","intellectual","intellectualism","intellectuals","sentimentality"],"id":100666,"author_id":"Richard+Hofstadter"},{"text":"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 kinds of politician. (Not for nothing is baby-kissing the synonym for public insincerity.).","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["baby-kissing","censorship","children","insincerity","moral-blackmail","politicians","sentimentality"],"id":107522,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"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 remember feeling 'vaguely guilty.","author":"William S. Burroughs","tags":["guilt","mothers","neglect","old-age","parents","sentimentality"],"id":160453,"author_id":"William+S.+Burroughs"},{"text":"I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romanticperson has a desperate confidence that they won't.","author":"F. Scott Fitzgerald","tags":["love","romance","romantic","sentimentality"],"id":203660,"author_id":"F.+Scott+Fitzgerald"},{"text":"She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-smelling thing had to be done. She would become adept with axes.","author":"Margaret Atwood","tags":["axes","blood","sentimentality"],"id":208044,"author_id":"Margaret+Atwood"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":30,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}