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I have always hated sentimentality: mother and children, church, the flag, the nation, the good man, the affirmative novel. And there is a reason. For these are society’s {{del|bastardizations of}}{{ins|bastardies on}} what the soul knows. Sentimentality is the abuse of an abuse. It is the abuse of words which are already an abuse albeit a necessary one, and so for good cause it was always intolerable to me. For what after all are the respective symbols above. They are  
I have always hated sentimentality: mother and children, church, the flag, the nation, the good man, the affirmative novel. And there is a reason. For these are society’s {{del|bastardizations of}}{{ins|bastardies on}} what the soul knows. Sentimentality is the abuse of an abuse. It is the abuse of words which are already an abuse albeit a necessary one, so for good cause it was always intolerable to me. For what after all are the respective symbols above. They are  
# the mystery of the creation of life,
# the mystery of the creation of life,
# God,
# God,