Kitsch tends to wallow in beauty - its shortcoming is not aesthetic, but ethical
Romanticism is the mother of kitsch and that there are moments when the child becomes so like its mother that one cannot differentiate between them
It's so sweet, I feel like my teeth are rotting when I listen to the radio.
Earnestness can ferment into sentimentality.
I’m gonna miss you,” Brianna says. “I’m gonna miss you too, baby,” Angelo murmurs. For Pete’s sake. It’s not like she’s leaving on a trip around the world. She’s only headed to homeroom.
The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.
Sentimentality is a form of fatigue.
Melodrama and melodramatic are not the same thing, and often people make the mistake of confusing the two.
Hindi films tend to over-romanticise situations.
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
