#cliches

I never appreciated 'positive heroes' in literature. They are almost always cliches, copies of copies, until the model is exhausted. I prefer perplexity, doubt, uncertainty, not just because it provides a more 'productive' literary raw material, but because that is the way we humans really are. ↗

— Jose Saramago

#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose

I'm working class, and want people to know I'm not unintelligent and all the other cliches that come with it. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#cliches #come #i #know #other

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins. ↗

— Newt Gingrich

#american history #both #cliches #election #every

Buzzwords and cliches - those are stock in trade. There's nothing wrong with them. ↗

— Michael Nesmith

#nothing #stock #them #those #trade

The computing field is always in need of new cliches. ↗

— Alan Perlis

#cliches #computing #field #need #new

Fashion fosters cliches of beauty, but I want to tear them apart. ↗

— Miuccia Prada

#beauty #cliches #fashion #fosters #i

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#alone #america #break #centuries #cliches

One of the more ignominious features of love was that you could only express it with cliches...it made you sound like a fraud at a time when you were blazing with sincerity. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#love #love

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés. ↗

— Alan Bennett

#humor #wisdom #writing #humor