Source: The Dervish House (2010), Ch. 3, §5 (p. 109)
“A legend is merely a history man decided to bugger.”
Source: Hunt the Moon
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Michael Moorcock
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Jean Cocteau
(1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
As quoted in The Observer (22 September 1957)
Context: What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.
“After a great war, history is written by the victors and legends develop which glorify them.”
Werner Heisenberg
(1901–1976) German theoretical physicist
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On Fairy-Stories (1939)
Context: The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. … But this story has entered History and the primary world; … It has pre-eminently the "inner consistency of reality." There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation.... this story is supreme; and it is true. Art has been verified. God is the Lord, of angels, and of men — and of elves. Legend and History have met and fused.
“The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
1940s, Third Inaugural Address (1941)
Context: The democratic aspiration is no mere recent phase in human history. It is human history. It permeated the ancient life of early peoples. It blazed anew in the Middle Ages. It was written in Magna Charta.
J. Michael Straczynski
(1954) American writer and television producer
Source: Thor, by J. Michael Straczynski, Volume 1