The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.
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"Los Angeles" from Exhumations (1966) [Methuen & Co., Ltd, London], p. 160Christopher Isherwood
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The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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I am not going to dictate to you what you write about my life and work. I only ask that you not make me out to be a 'whiner and sentimentalist.'
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