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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… — 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
• 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
• Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War… — Unknown Author
• When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred… — Umberto Eco

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