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I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. -- Gene Wilder
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. -- Joseph Conrad
I love karaoke. I love maudlin country ballads. In another life, I'd be Loretta Lynn. -- Sam Taylor-Wood
I love the sad songs with their maudlin, self-deprecating, almost funny lyrics. As an Englishman, they make a lot of sense. -- Teddy Thompson
My father always read obituaries to me out loud, not because he was maudlin or morbid, but because they were mini biographies. -- Bill Paxton
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more emphasis on the suspects. -- Jane Haddam
I want to put any number of assorted 'ists' - such as relativists, deconstructionists, destructivists, postmodernists, the more maudlin kind of pacifists and feminists - firmly in their place. -- Martin Van Creveld
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature -- Luther Burbank
Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. -- Luther Burbank
Trauma reflected upon in tranquility can produce morally stunning insights - literary light! It can also produce maudlin rubbish. -- Jennifer Stone
I would never wanna do a show that's strictly maudlin and invaded my personal life and my home. I would never do that. -- Sandra Bernhard
Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments. -- Beatrice Warde
Usually horror in your personal life can translate into some good music. Sometimes. Sometimes it can be really maudlin and boring, and kind of personal. -- Bob Schneider
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar. -- Willa Cather
Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross? -- Alexander Pope
Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul. -- Elbert Hubbard
This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive! -- Don Marquis
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Stiff-necked America, in flagrant rebellion against God, is indulging a caterwauling orgy of sinful maudlin cinementality on the 5th anniversary of God's 9/11 vengeance upon this evil nation for its sodomite sins! -- Fred Phelps
I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost. -- Vladimir Nabokov

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