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For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life.

— Joanna Trollope

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "For all that somebody gets dumped every nanosecond in the world, you don’t want to be lumped in with everybody else – you want it to be expressed as poignantly and vividly as you feel it yourself…A cliche is only a cliche if it’s happening in someone else’s life." in the context of "On how people react to her characters in “Joanna Trollope on families, fiction and feminism: ‘Society still expects women to do all the caring’” in The Guardian (2020 Mar 2)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Joanna Trollope

About Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope (December 9, 1943) is an English writer.