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“Tell me everything!" she'd cry, salivating. Poor Reva. She might actually have thought I was capable of sharing things. "Friends forever?" She'd want us to make some sacred pact. She always wanted to make pacts. "Let's make a pact to have brunch at least twice a month. Let's promise to go for a walk through Central Park every Saturday. Let's have a daily call-time. Will you swear to take a ski trip this year? It burns so many calories.”

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Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation
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“Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches”

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Author:Mohadesa Najumi
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“I know, I know…there’s something cliché about that. The heroine initially wanting to clobber a protagonist male, but later realizing that he’s grown on her and she actually really likes him. Technically, I’m not supposed to find that appealing. But maybe real life is a lot more cliché than anyone wants to admit. Or maybe there’s just a fine, subjective line between the cliché and the poetic.”

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Book:Once Upon a Road Trip
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“Patient stated that she felt like a burden to loved ones" - much later, when I read the notes from the emergency room, I did not have any recollection of the conversation. 'A burden to loved ones': this language must have been provided to me. I would never use the phrase in my thinking or writing. But my resistance has little to do with avoiding a platitude. To say a burden is to grant oneself weight in other people's lives: to call them loved ones is to fake one's ability to love. One does not always want to subject oneself to self-interrogation imposed by a cliché.”

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Book:Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life
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“The closest I ever got to Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms was when I bought the box game set for the latter (I think this was before the novels came out). I well recall this—we were living in James Bay, in Victoria. We opened the box up and took out the maps while sitting in a Mexican restaurant. Ten minutes later I was as close as I have ever been to publicly burning someone else’s creation…What bothered us was the reworking of every fantasy cliché imaginable, all in one package now, and none of it made sense.”

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Author:Steven Erikson
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“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.”

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Book:Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
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“A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
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“Една приятелка изпитваше дълбок страх от поглед на кукли. Изпадаше в истински ступор, срещнеше ли оцъклените им очи. Ама те наистина гледаха страшно, някогашните кукли. Оказа се, че този страх е описан и си има име, нарича се гленофобия. Моят страх е дори по-ужасен, защото заплашителното може да е навсякъде. В никоя номенклатура на фобиите не съм го срещал и затова надлежно прилагам описанието му тук. Нека това бъде малкият ми научен принос към безкрайния Списък на страховете. Имам фобия от един въпрос. Кошмарен въпрос, който може буквално да изскочи иззад ъгъла, скрит в беззъбата уста на съседката или изломотен от продавача на вестници. Всяко позвъняване на телефона е заредено с този въпрос. Да, най-често се крие в телефонните слушалки: Как си? Спрях да излизам, не вдигах телефона, сменях местата, от които пазарувам, за да не завързвам тривиалните познанства на всекидневието. Блъсках си главата над това да изковавам защитни отговори. Нуждаех се от един нов щит на Ахил срещу глупостта. Как да се намери такъв отговор, който да не умножава бездарието, да не зацикля в клишето. Отговор, който да не те кара да ползваш готови фрази, отговор, който не лъже, но и не разкрива неща, които не искаш да разкриеш. Отговор, който да не предполага завързването на дълъг и безсмислен разговор. Коя фалшива традиция на етикета го е подготвяла, как се е шмугвал през вековете този лицемерен въпрос. „Как си?“, това е въпросът. That is the question. (Възвишеното „Да бъдеш или не“ се е сменило с това нищожно питане, ето ти доказателство за падение.) Как си? Как си? Как си? Как се отговаря на такова питане? Виж, англичаните са се изхитрили, като са го превърнали в поздрав. Обезкостили са го, отнели са му питащото жило.„Как си“ е обелката на банана, поставена с цялата любезност под крака ти, сиренцето, което те примамва към капана на клишето. Как си — слабата омаломощаваща отрова на всекидневието. Няма открит отговор на този въпрос. Няма. Знам възможните отговори, но се гнуся от тях, разбирате ли, гнуся се… Не искам да съм толкова предвидим, да отвръщам „благодаря, добре“ или „горе-долу, щом сме живи“, или „а бе оправяме се още“, или…Не знам как съм. Не мога да бъда категоричен. За да ви отговоря подобаващо, трябва да прекарам нощи, месеци, години, да изчета вавилонски кули от книги, да пиша, да пиша… Отговорът е цял роман. Как съм? Не съм. Точка. Нека това бъде първият ред. И оттук нататък да започне истинският отговор.”

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Author:Georgi Gospodinov
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“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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Book:Masterly Batting: 100 Great Test Innings
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“Good things come to those who wait.”

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Book:Porcelain
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