“The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.”

Predictible Fakers (January 2009) http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/01/predictible-fakers.html <br class="br">Context: My experience is that journalists report on the nearest-cliche algorithm, which is extremely uninformative because there aren’t many cliches, the truth is often quite distant from any cliche, and the only thing you can infer about the actual event was that this was the closest cliche.... It is simply not possible to appreciate the sheer awfulness of mainstream media reporting until someone has actually reported on you. It is so much worse than you think.

On family

Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter III (p. 90)
The Star Fox (1965)

Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

The Golden Goose Special (1997)

Source: So Yesterday

Letter to Larry Callen (30 October 1957), p. 71
1990s, The Proud Highway : The Fear and Loathing Letters Volume I (1997)
Context: They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all". And with that, I'll stop trying to convince myself that I can't fail; how dull the whole thing would be if that were true.

Source: The Writings of Marcel Duchamp