“History isn't what happened, history is just what historians tell us.”
Source: A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
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“The historian will tell you what happened. The novelist will tell you what it felt like.”
Time (26 June 2006)

Source: Foundations of Psychohistory (1982), Ch. 2, The Independence of Psychohistory, p. 85.

James M. McPherson. "Revisionist Historians" https://web.archive.org/web/20040623155609/http://historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2003/0309/0309pre1.cfm (September 2003), Perspectives, American Historical Association.
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Source: Astonishing X-Men, Volume 2: Dangerous
“History upon Terra tells us what horrors follow upon religious mandates of unlimited reproduction.”
Source: Grass (1989), Chapter 12 (p. 250)