James A. Baldwin Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: August 2, 1924 - December 1, 1987
Birthday: August 2
Death: December 1
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty, the inability to feel.
source: "Everybody’s Protest Novel". Essay by James A. Baldwin (1949), as quoted in "Uneasy Rider" by Alexandra Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. November 9, 2015. 
topic: Inability, Emotion, Dishonesty, Wet Eyes, Ostentatious, Sentimentality
