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There was something about being in the vicinity of Grahame Coats that always made Fat Charlie (a) speak in cliches and (b) begin to daydream… — Neil Gaiman
I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and… — Umberto Eco
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a… — Dean Koontz
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true — Jack Kerouac
Desi, Desi, Desi what am I going to do with you? (Kyrian) Don't you dare take that flippant tone with me! (Desiderius) Why ever not?… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading… — William Safire
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. — Diana Gabaldon
First things first has always been my motto, mostly because it makes absolutely no sense - after all, if first things were second or third,… — Jeff Lindsay
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches… — Harlan Coben
…my Lolita remarked: “You know, what’s so dreadful about dying is that you are completely on your own”; and it struck me, as my automaton… — Vladimir Nabokov
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. — Edward Abbey
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.… — H. L. Mencken
This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak. — Sylvia Brownrigg
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. — Josephine de La Baume
Cliches are cliches because they are true. — Harsha Bhogle
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are… — Wendi McLendon-Covey
Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes… — Rafael Yglesias
There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from. — David Twohy
Grief is a room without doors - but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. — Simon Van Booy
The challenge in daytime in particular, I think, is to go against all the traditional cliches of daytime and try to make it real. — Eric Braeden
Christmas really is about all the cliches: health, happiness and love. A future with my family is the important thing... to stay alive for them. — Sylvie Meis
When it comes to love, the English language bears no shortage of cliches. — Sarah MacLean
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that… — Wolcott Gibbs
I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches. — Douglas Wood
Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true. — Douglas Wood

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