#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

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#always #appreciated #because #cliches #copies

I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. ↗

— Charles Olson

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#grown #i #up

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

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#alone #america #break #centuries #cliches