Clich Quotes
112 quotes by 107 authors
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
— Vaclav Havel
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.
— H. L. Mencken
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer does not respect…
— Leonard Bishop
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to…
— Paul Halmos
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés, the same jagged…
— Richard Bach
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh, the hackneyed characters,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Beware of clichés. Not just the Âclichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are…
— Geoff Dyer
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit the subject. Develop…
— William Zinsser
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any of the characters…
— Kristin Nelson
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say, but every time you start…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my dad, my granddad. I think…
— George Eads
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and about to go to sleep,…
— Edward Dorn
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Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms,…
— Patrick Cockburn
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But literature, I discovered, can also save you. Truly. Over the cliché and through the truth, it can save.
— Porochista Khakpour
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
— Umberto Eco
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A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.
— Robert Bresson
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Elizabeth Taylor is pre-feminist woman. This is the source of her continuing greatness and relevance. She wields the sexual power that feminism cannot explain and…
— Camille Paglia
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The term bohemian has a bad reputation because it's allied to myriad clichés, but Parisians originally adopted the term, associated with nomadic Gypsies, to describe…
— Sarah Thornton
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The reasons there are so many clichés about universes inside of dewdrops is because there are universes inside of dewdrops.
— Steven Kotler
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I think what I do is find a cliché and try to believe in it, try to get to where I don't laugh at it.
— John Currin
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