“Clichés remind and reassure us that we're not alone, that others have trod this ground long ago.”
“Less than a month ago all of August still stretched before us - long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
“We're all clichés, all following scripts that have been written and played out long before we landed the role.”
“They said it was only a ground shark; but I was not wholly reassured. It is as bad to be eaten by a ground shark as by any other.”
“Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're special and that we're still here.”
“Two clichés make us laugh. A hundred cliches move us. For we sense dimly that the clichés are talking among themselves, and celebrating a reunion.(Casablanca, or, The Clichés Are Having a Ball)”