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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… — 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
- Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t know any… — Kristin Nelson
- When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco
- Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork. — Paul Halmos
- To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés… — Martin Amis
- News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs… — Karl Kraus
- First, you hand over some basics-overwhelming joy, existential angst, a giving-in to desire, etc. And then you promise to withstand talking idly… — Julianna Baggott