Who said "Sentimentality is the only sentiment worth having."?

This quote is attributed to Vladimir Nabokov.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment worth having. - Vladimir Nabokov

"Sentimentality is the only sentiment worth having."

Vladimir Nabokov

Novelist Russian-American 1899–1977

"Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one."

"The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness."

"I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child."

"Loneliness is the cantor's voice of the soul."