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I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
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common sense is embedded in common things
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Enough anecdotes make a pattern.
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Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui - these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
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The human mind delights in finding pattern - so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
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Touching on universality is an important part of effective storytelling, but the problem with cliches is that they are tired and dull. And that's where writers must try to be artful.
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An inference of perspective,
a glimpse of regularity,
causation of habit,
and the only recurrence:
my faith in you.
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When told a script was full of old cliches: Let's have some new cliches.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag.
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Character is simply habit long continued.
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Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.
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Any fiction writer who assumes that a character is typical no doubt runs the risk of stumbling into cliche and stereotype.
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I'm sick of the old cliches. Bring me some new cliches.
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Repetition, volume, and longevity will twist and turn a myth, a lie, into a commonly accepted way of doing things.
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Analogy pervades all our thinking,
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People love cliches. If you can give people cliches, that's very good TV, then.
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At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.
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Humans are pattern-seeking story-telling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns, whether they exist or not.
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I feel like a cliche.
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Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative. We find that it is not a new scene which is needed, but a new viewpoint.
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Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.
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Human beings ... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.
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Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action, our problems are most complex and, too often, silently borne.
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There is always half a truth in cliche.
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Habit, if wisely and skillfully formed, becomes truly a second nature; but unskillfully and unmethodically depicted, it will be as it were an ape of nature, which imitates nothing to the life, but only clumsily and awkwardly
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year-old girl. It was more than a habit, for a habit could be broken. This was a deep disposition, the outline experience had stencilled on character. It was not
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Character is long-standing habit.
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They're called cliches because they're true, you know. Besides, life is quite complicated enough...
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Metaphor is ritual sacrifice. It kills the look-alike. No, metaphor is homeopathy.
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Tradition is a kind of mental illness with a clear symptom of repetition
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The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.
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The fate of every unusual thing is to be a usual thing quickly!
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I just watched so many Westerns as a kid that you end up using archetypes and sort of tropes of that genre, because there's a language there and you can twist it and turn it on its head or play to it or go sideways at any time.
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Any idea that is held in the mind that is either feared or revered will, begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical forms available.
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The habit of expression leads to the search for something to express. Something remains as a residuum of the commonplace itself, if one strikes out every commonplace in the expression.
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Metaphor, everything is sort of Metaphor of something else.
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Habit had made the custom.
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Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.
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I originated my own cliches, but I'm finding that's not working for me anymore.
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Too many new writers dress up old cliches.
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Habits are the shorthand of behavior.
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An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors.
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Repetition is a form of change
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Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.
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Familiarity can blind you
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The wise say that our failure is to form habits: for habit is the mark of a stereotyped world,
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I'm one of the cliches that has grown up.
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This is the worst of our ways of remembering
this tendency to prod the crust of anecdote in the hope of releasing a gush of piping-hot symbolism.
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When subject matter is forced to fit into preconceived patterns, there can be no freshness of vision. Following rules of composition can only lead to a tedious repetition of pictorial cliches.
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The idea, the pattern, is self-projected; it is a form of self-worship, of self-perpetuation, and hence gratifying.
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Repetition doesn't really exist
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Tale as old as time,
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A tendency to make metaphorical connections is an occupational hazard for those of us who write.
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Things that have a common quality ever quickly seek their kind.
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Cold metal walks across my forehead,
spiders search for my heart.
It is a light that goes out in my mouth ...
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A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.
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A stereotype is not a stereotype if it's true.
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Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, and all flock to their aid.
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I'm not a guy who likes cliches. I don't think that stereotypes and cliches are the end of the line, when it comes to a performance.
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Stories mimic life like certain insects mimic leaves and twigs.
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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An analogy is like a thought with another thought's hat on
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Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.
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No pattern should be without some sort of meaning.
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No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.
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every myth, every fable must have some roots. Something lies among those roots.'
'It does. ... Most often a dream, a wish, a desire, a yearning. Faith that there are no limits to possibility. And occasionally chance.
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A metaphor is like a simile.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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The seed of an urban legend find fertile soil at the corner of tragedy and imagination.
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I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than nothing.' They rise up out of the pit and know no rest until they drag you down into its dark.
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Behind innocence there gathers a clotted mass of superstition, of twisted and misdirected impulse; clandestine flirtation, fads, and ragtime fill the unventilated mind.
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Habits are soon assumed; but when we strive to strip them off, 'tis being flayed alive.
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Most people try to avoid cliches. It's my ambition in life to try to get 'em right!
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The stars dehisce.
By "stars" I mean, of course, tradition,
and by "tradition" I mean nothing at all.
A pronoun disembowels his antecedent.
Stop me if you've heard this one before.
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Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
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Commonplace, adj.
... But then I'll walk into the bathroom and find you've forgotten to put the cap back on the toothpaste again, and it will be this splinter that I just keep stepping on.
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All life is a pattern ... but we can not always see the pattern when we are part of it.
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There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: 'You see,' he says, 'now that's formalism.
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A thought enters; we pamper it; it germinates and grows into an evil act.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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Convention is another name for the habits of society.
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I like what I hear as a resulting combination of these two strands ... something of a combination of familiarity and, for lack of a better word, strangeness.
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
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A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason.
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Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
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So I think I sometimes will put a cliche in and then just pad it out so you're not noticing.
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For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural.
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Generalization, especially risky generalization, is one of the chief methods by which knowledge proceeds ... Safe generalizations are usually rather boring. Delete that "usually rather." Safe generalizations are quite boring.
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Similar things are drawn to each other.
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It's not a stereotype if it's always true.
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That prudery which survives youth and beauty resembles a scarecrow left in the fields after harvest.
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The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
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I don't think of my life as a cliche, but I'm a cliche eccentric. Complete with a strange name - I mean, who's named Val? How many Vals do you know? I mean, really?
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Fear begets fiction and fiction gives a shape to fear
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I mistook you for a metaphor.
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Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.
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A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
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That's what novels are: They're amalgams of archetypes, collections of random traits one observes in other people through life, blended into fresh characters.
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The novelty we want is always close to the familiar.