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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

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I know that I'm already in the history books and that people are going to remember me as the prisoner of war and the fabricated stories, but you know, to me I was just another soldier over there doing my job. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. ↗

— Christine Keeler

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Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature. ↗

— Phillip Noyce

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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances. ↗

— Barbara Kruger

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Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys. ↗

— Garth Brooks

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If you think you have it tough, read history books. ↗

— Bill Maher

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Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell apart. ↗