"Our writers are full of cliches just as……" — Wolcott Gibbs
"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 you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed."
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Wolcott Gibbs
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