#story

Once a newspaper touches a story, the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#facts #forever #lost #newspaper #once

Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#history #individuals #most #periods #revolutions

The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#history #human #institutions #jurisprudence #known

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #been #films #get #history

Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters. ↗

— Kazimir Malevich

#anecdote #archaeologists #attorneys #creative #engineers

When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on. ↗

— John Malkovich

#certain things #facts #factual #history #how

You can't work in the movies. Movies are all about lighting. Very few filmmakers will concentrate on the story. You get very little rehearsal time, so anything you do onscreen is a kind of speed painting. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anything #concentrate #few #filmmakers #get

Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always. ↗

— Andre Malraux

#been #despair #end #fall #history

A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up. ↗

— Leonard Maltin

#christmas #louse #story #such #up

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome. ↗

— William Manchester

#awesome #behold #dress #edwardian #full