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"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
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"Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment."
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"And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality."
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"The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives."
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"The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people."
Art
"I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension."
Work
"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
Life
"Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen."
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"It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions."
History
"I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses."
Man
"A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped."
Democracy
"What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil."
Evil
"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
Life
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing."
Man
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