“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
Brian W. Aldiss (1925–2017) British science fiction author
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.”
"1941"
A Writer's Notebook (1946)
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