The writer had been a perfect crazed-wits, Elminster decided early on, and paranoid to boot. What little magic the Netherese mage had set down was twisted by the periodic ravings of a tenuous sanity and by the suspicion-driven cloaking of facts in a torturous maze of codes, obtuse jargon, deliberate misinformation, and mystical gibberish. The obvious intent was to conceal magical truths from unauthorized readers—all relatively sane wizards, for instance.
— Shadows of Doom by Ed Greenwood
Warden: [Morrigan] knows how you extend your unnatural lifespan.
Flemeth: That she does. The question is, do you?
Flemeth: That she does. The question is, do you?
"Many stories are told of Zaphod Beeblebrox's journey to the Frogstar. 10% of them are 95% true, 14% of them are 65% true, 35% of them are only 5% true, and all the rest of them are told by Zaphod Beeblebrox."
— Narrator, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978)
ok history lesson motherfucker
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—amphetameme, Tumblr
Kai: We have real work to do. What have I told you about the Incarnations?
Simon: Practically nothing.
[beat]
Kai: Yes, that sounds like me.
Simon: Practically nothing.
[beat]
Kai: Yes, that sounds like me.
Augustine: Is that the truth, or the truth you tell yourself?
The Emperor: What is the difference?
The Emperor: What is the difference?
This narrative relies significantly on personal accounts, often contradictory and sometimes demonstrably wrong. Modern oral historians and TV documentary-makers treat with reverence the tales of very old men and women, but the memories of such witnesses often play them false.
— Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942, by Max Hastings.
