#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

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

— Stephen Fry

#cliches #like #most #then #true

Normally you read a screenplay - and I read a lot of them - and the characters don't feel like people. They feel like plot devices or cliches or stereotypes. ↗

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#cliches #devices #feel #i #like

Cliches and adjectives permeated my prose. ↗

— Dick Schaap

#cliches #permeated #prose

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

— Charles Olson

#grown #i #up

Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true. ↗

— Douglas Wood

#cliches #hollywood #see #true #unfortunately

...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts. ↗

— William Faulkner

#vocabulary #life

That's the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God - so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true... Hell, don't pose me that one. ↗

— David Bowie

#cliches #god #hell #i #life

Comedy is hard to do. All the cliches about it are true. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#cliches #comedy #hard #true

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use. ↗

— Michel Hazanavicius

#allowed #american #being #cliches #foreigner