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"As an opener, I'd like to state that elves are certainly NOT cliché. It doesn't matter if they all have pointy ears, or they all live a long time, or even if they all like forests. It doesn't matter if they're short or tall or both. It doesn't matter if they're related to forest spirits or even angels. Regardless of how many elves are like one another or how many elves appear in how many books, elves are NOT cliché.
"Why?
"Well, for one, an elf is a creature. How can a creature be a cliché? Is a human clichcliché? They certainly do appear in a lot of books! How about dragons? Now there's a popular subject! Are dragons clichcliché as well? Well what about vampires too? Or werewolves? Or bats? Or rabbits? Or mice? Or owls? Or crows? Cats??"
-- Robert Fanney [via goodreads]
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Cats are not clicliché. Cat-ladies, now there's one for ya. Or maybe some cat-ladies had always thought they should have been cat-gentlemen. Okay, they're not cliché or clicliché, eitherché. (Yeah, yeah, Gale had to end on an odd note.)