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I drive around the streetsan inch away from weeping,ashamed of my sentimentality andpossible love.

Normally, anything done in the name of 'the kids' strikes me as either slightly sentimental or faint...

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Christopher HitchensThe Quotable Hitchens from Alcohol to Zionism: The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect thespeaker from being interpreted as n...

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I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person t...

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Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion o...

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H. L. MenckenThe Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

Our sentimentality toward animals is a sure sign of the disdain in which we hold them. Sentimentalit...

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Two friends are ordering lunch. One says, 'I'm in the mood for a burger,' and orders it. The other s...

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She would roll up her sleeves and dispense with sentimentality, and do whatever blood-soaked, bad-sm...

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Margaret AtwoodMoral Disorder and Other Stories

Damn! What did Ansermet, that most faithful friend, know about Stravinsky's poverty of heart? What d...

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Milan KunderaTestaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarant...

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No sentimentality, no romance, no false hope, no self-petting lies, merely that which is!

For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [...

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As a devil's advocate Mr Neville was faultless. And yet, she knew, there was a flaw in his reasoning...

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