on cliches!

"Cliches are cliches because they are true. They are guaranteed to work, no matter how often they have been used before."

A quote from Anita Nair's "MISTRESS"

"A creative writing teacher at San Jose State used to say about cliches:" Avoid them like the plague." Then he'd laugh at his own joke. The class laughed along with him, but I always thought cliches got a bum rap. Because, often, they're dead-on. but the aptness of the cliched saying is overshadowed by the nature of the saying as a cliche."

An excerpt from Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"

How much of life is there in these few lines. Read a book and you will be amazed how much of it is your life!