110 Quotes About Cliche

Clichés work by appealing to the collective unconscious. They are the Pachelbel’s Canon in D of writing, something familiar the talented can riff off to create a distinct work. I want to subvert tropes, but I have to make sure my audience understands the game first.

In French printer's jargon, cliche (which mimicked the sound of a mold striking molten metal) was a synonym for stereotype, which in turn evolved from the Greek for "solid impression." A stereotype was a printing plate that duplicated typography and that was used by the printer in lieu of the original. So a cliche is a word or phrase used over and over again in lieu of the original.

What's disappointing is that it's just another mold, you leave one cliche and end up right back in another. Not really that subversive or out of control.

See, Red? When life hands you lemons, you know what you gotta do?”“Wow,” Lauren said. “Yes, Mr. Cliché, I know what I have to do. I make lemonade.”“No,” he said. “You scream, ‘Fuck you, lemons!”“And then you throw those goddamn lemons into oncoming traffic, and you go do what you want to do.

Losing your virginity doesn't make you more of a woman than a virgin. It just means your hymen is broken. Big whoop.

Would that cricketers had better lines, or at least that their most famous were not also their tritest or most banal. 'This thing can be done,' said Fred Spofforth in 1882. 'We'll get 'em in singles,' George Hirst did not say twenty years later. 'You guys are history,' growled Devon Malcolm in 1994. 'You've just dropped the World Cup,' Steve Waugh may have crowed in 1999. At least two of these could have been put into the mouth of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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The normal routine... cliche"FEW MORE SECONDS""FEW MORE MINUTES

If you find books boring, probably the problem is that you haven't picked a good one....You are not searching cliche you are into something much bigger.