“All the stories are fictions. What matters is which fiction you believe.”
Source: Children of the Mind
“Wars produce many stories of fiction, some of which are told until they are believed to be true.”
Source: 1880s, Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant (1885), Ch. 67.
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