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The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

The repeated lies become history, but they don’t necessarily become the truth.
– Colum McCann

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  1. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. – Colum McCann
  2. Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. – Colum McCann
  3. People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody’s perfect. – Colum McCann
  4. Pain’s nothing. Pains what you give, not what you get. – Colum McCann
  5. We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. – Colum McCann
  6. It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. – Colum McCann
  7. Memory has a heavy backspin, yet it’s still impossible to land exactly where we took off. – Colum McCann
  8. One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. – Colum McCann
  9. There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it. – Colum McCann
  10. Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. – Colum McCann
  11. The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. – Colum McCann
  12. …and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.  – Colum McCann
  13. All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can’t eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. – Colum McCann
  14. A good novel can be a doorstop to despair. – Colum McCann
  15. Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. – Colum McCann
  16. The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no – Colum McCann
  17. Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. – Colum McCann
  18. Your strength lies in knowledge, your power lies in wisdom, your treasure lies in understanding, and your wealth lies in life. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  19. Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe. – Lenore Kandel
  20. A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain. – Adrian G Hilder
  21. The truth is simple.Lies are complex.The truth comes in sentences.Lies… in paragraphs.Pay attention to this when someone is communicating with you. – Steve Maraboli
  22. Lies can be formed from truth, but truth cannot be formed from lies. – Suzy Kassem
  23. Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow. – Chuck Wachtel
  24. Your thoughts, vividly imagined and repeated, charged with emotion, become your reality. – Brian Tracy
  25. A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth. – Frank Sonnenberg
  26. A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated. – James Rozoff
  27. People seize to investigate the truth when things are been repeated constantly. – Sunday Adelaja
  28. The more you believe, the more you’ll be leaving you, when what you believed turns out to be just lies. Or unjust lies. Or any lies, anyway. – Will Advise
  29. He who loves lies suffers from no disease than lies! He who believes in and acts upon lies suffers from no disease than ignorance! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  30. the lies of centuries, the lies of love,the lies of Socrates and Blake and Christwill be your bedmates and tombstonesin a death that will never end. – Charles Bukowski
  31. …lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn’t ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same. – Charles ens
  32. What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. -Ralph Waldo Emerson – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  33. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us – Henry Stanley Haskins
  34. Mythology is a set of primitive lies that people rarely believe. This is rather different from history, which is a set of lies that people believe. – Ashwin Sanghi
  35. My history is my step to future , whatever the history was full of garbage, but I can get over it and get to the TOP with my History – Ahmed Farrag
  36. Because the human history is the history of shoes. The history of places where we ever tread and stand. – Stebby Julionatan
  37. History will only remember those that remembered it and the best way to make history is to read history – ETC Wanyanwu
  38. You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is…Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. – Anthony Doerr
  39. Become the destroyer of sects – become the breaker of privileges -“ become the messenger of equality -“ become the prophet of goodness. – Abhijit Naskar
  40. When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy. – Swami Dhyan Giten

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