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• The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law. — Vaclav Havel
• The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken
• The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop
• 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… — Paul Halmos
• What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach
• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make you laugh,… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as… — Geoff Dyer
• My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice to fit… — William Zinsser

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