The use of cliché [is] the use of ready-made, prefabricated formulas designed to give those who are too lazy think the illusion of thinking. (Northrop Frye)

The use of cliché [is] the use of ready-made, prefabricated formulas designed to give those who are too lazy think the illusion of thinking.

Northrop Frye

Related topics

cliche illusion lazy ready-made thinking think use

Related quotes

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. View quote
Ray Bradbury
Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop thinking. I exist because I think I cannot keep from thinking. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
An idea is always a generalization, and generalization is a property of thinking. To generalize means to think. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. View quote
William James