"Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too……" — Matt Haig
"Vampire? Such a provocative word, wrapped in too many clichés and girly novels."
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17 Quotes by Matt Haig
Matt Haig has 17 quotes on this site.
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Make sure, as often as possible, you are doing something you’d be happy to die doing.
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If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.
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If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.
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Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.
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The possibility of pain is where love stems from
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The single biggest act of bravery or madness anyone can do is the act of change.
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End-users not technologies shape the market. Consequently marketers need to stay abreast not only of technological developments but also of…
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Everyone represses everything. Do you think any of these "normal" human beings really do exactly what they want to do…
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You reach a certain age -- sometimes it's fifteen, sometimes it's forty-six -- and you realize the cliche you have…
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Beauty breeds beauty, truth triggers truth. The cure for writer's block is therefore to read.
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This was, I would later realise, a planet of things wrapped inside things. Food inside wrappers. Bodies inside clothes. Contempt…
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There is only one genre in fiction, the genre is called book.
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More Clich Quotes
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one of 112 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
— Vaclav Havel
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
— H. L. Mencken
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing.…
— Leonard Bishop
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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
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same…
— Richard Bach
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as…
— Geoff Dyer
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t…
— Kristin Nelson
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my…
— George Eads
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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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