Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained.
Vladimir NabokovAbove all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times.... As a general rule, try to find new combinations of words (not for the sake of their novelty, but because every person sees things in an individual way and must find his own words for them).
Vladimir Nabokov