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Respect clichés

28 October 2015 by 2 Comments

Respect clichés. Clichés are old and wise and powerful. Nothing gets to be a cliché without being used and used and used — and nothing gets used that much without having a lot going for it.

—Mary Catelli

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  1. antares says
    28 October 2015 at 07:33

    Amen.

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  2. Wendy S. Delmater says
    5 November 2015 at 10:52

    Old wives’ tales should also not be dismissed right away; they became such, as Tolkien noted, because they were perhaps once needful for people to now. Sort of like the advice to feed a person with a cold chicken soup, which turned out to have a scientific basis as something in
    it breaks up mucous.

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