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Jose Saramago / Jose Saramago

September 14, 2017 / quotes /

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…

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PortugueseCliches Doubt Heroes Literary Literature Uncertainty

American / George Stigler

May 29, 2017 / quotes /

My interests were aroused, and my faith in the cliches of the subject destroyed, as so often with other subjects, by the discussions with my friend, Aaron Director.

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American / Michael Nesmith

May 23, 2017 / quotes /

Buzzwords and cliches – those are stock in trade. There’s nothing wrong with them.

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Michael NesmithCliches Nothing Trade Wrong

American / Robert Morgan

May 20, 2017 / quotes /

I encourage students to pursue an idea far enough so they can see what the cliches and stereotypes are. Only then do they begin to hit pay dirt.

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British / Stephen Fry

January 8, 2017 / quotes /

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

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English / Evelyn Waugh

July 21, 2016 / quotes /

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

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Evelyn WaughBeing Cliches Manners

American / Matthew Vaughn

February 22, 2016 / quotes /

You need cliches. Cliches are what people respond to.

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Matthew VaughnCliches People

Brad Holland / Brad Holland

January 24, 2016 / quotes /

I’ve never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about.

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Artists Cliches Culture Nothing

American / Wolcott Gibbs

January 12, 2016 / quotes /

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…

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Wolcott GibbsBeing Cliches Old Writers

English / Timothy Spall

January 3, 2016 / quotes /

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

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Timothy SpallClass Cliches People Want

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