
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: A Fear of Love
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.
“The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.”
Source: Let the Great World Spin (2009), Book One: A Fear of Love
The Illusion of the End (1992) (L'Illision de la Fin) Tr. Chris Turner, 1994, Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804725012, p. 26, "The Event Strike"
1990s
Quote in 'Artist's Voice', Kuh; as cited in Outside the Lines, David W. Galenson, Harvard University Press, 2001, p. 109
posthumous
As quoted in "Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dies at 90" by Ravi Nessman in the Associated Press (18 March 2008) http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jfE8qUikNEG6MVWqYku2k8BD_RcgD8VG4VI00
2000s and attributed from posthumous publications
“Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.”
“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Variant: Some books are lies frae end to end.
“Some books are lies frae end to end.”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
“In soft deluding lies let fools delight.
A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.”
"On a Sundial"
Sonnets and Verse (1938)