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...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history. — Mario Puzo

History is written by the victor. — Guillermo Del Toro

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien

When the history of guilt is written, parents who refuse their children money will be right up there in the Top Ten. — Erma Bombeck

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. — Albert Camus

She has to be written out of history and written into myth. — Hal Duncan

History is written by those who hang heroes. — Robert The Bruce

Islamic history is written in two types of ink. Black for the ink of the scholars and red for the blood of the martyrs! — Me

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him. — Henry Adams

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan

History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places. — Kate Mosse

History used to be written by the winners. Now it is distorted and distributed by the winners' media. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception. — George Lynch

I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. — Adam Hochschild

History becomes fiction in the ... act of being written down — Jack Kerouac

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents. — Allan Sherman

History is written by people. People aren't always honest with others, or with themselves. — Hilary Thompson

Historical gap is created due to missing written records. — Lailah Gifty Akita

History is, as we know, written by the winners. — Rachel Martin

The mixture of the oral and the written traditions in the writings of Plato enabled him to dominate the history of the West. — Harold Innis

History is always written to serve the powerful. — Kevin Emerson

In the history of the world there was not one example of a man ever having written a satisfactory letter to a woman who mattered to him. — Chris Cleave

We don't know history. We only know what has been written about it. — Marty Rubin

History is written by the victors. — Walter Benjamin

In the past, history was always written by the victors. But in the age of Twitter, history is written by everyone. — Nick Bilton

People say history was written by the winners. No, it wasn't. It was written by the bullies. — Colin Quinn

All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus

I was looking for what rarely ends up on the page, because history is so much more than that which is written down. — David Van Reybrouck

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey

The written word is greatest sacred documentation. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Songs are often written by people who are witnesses to history, — George Nethercutt

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect. — Ray Stevenson

The history of civilization could actually be written in terms of the level of its women. — Fulton J. Sheen

History has been written, but it has not always been right or complete. — Toi Thomas

Hold unto your Dreams and Visions for our heros past
did and history have written their names in Gold — Ikechukwu Joseph

History is written by those who win and those who dominate. — Edward Said

Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert The Bruce

I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot. — Lev Grossman

We understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand. — Paulo Coelho

History is replete with blunders written by sycophants. — Tomichan Matheikal

History will be kind to me for I have written it. Winston Churchill — Ron Mayes

History is always written by winners. — Amish Tripathi

Everyone wanted to create his own history. There was nothing as powerful as the written word; history had taught them all that much. — Ted Dekker

It was being written in the East that 'Sufism was formerly a reality without a name: now it is a name without a reality'. — Idries Shah

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was. — Black Elk

For every written history, there is a silenced part of it, that is left to remain untold and undiscovered until history repeats itself. — Joon Mier Da Mienta