"Using clichés is a substitute for thinking" — George Orwell

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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… — H. L. Mencken
• The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing.… — 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… — Paul Halmos
• What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same… — Richard Bach
• No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make… — W. Somerset Maugham
• Beware of clichés. Not just the ­clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response 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… — William Zinsser
• Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t… — Kristin Nelson
• You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,… — Philip Seymour Hoffman
• Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my… — George Eads
• One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and… — Edward Dorn

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