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Winston Churchill Quote: 'History is written by the victors. ...'

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The freedom fighters in India's long struggle for independence from British rule, or members of the African National Congress, were once classed as terrorists. History, as they say, is written by victors, but history also has many cunning corridors - how much time must elapse before all those tricky side-passages are revealed?
Neel Mukherjee
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The victors in great wars have always been spiritually defeated by the conquered.


George William Russell
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Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the history of the poor is rarely written down.
Gene Luen Yang
When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Allan Sherman
You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.
John Lydon
I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.
Ludwig Quidde
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
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The written word is everything.


John Drinkwater
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I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written.


Seamus Heaney
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I often reread books I have written.


Taylor Caldwell
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Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.


Stephen Sondheim
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Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.


Wayne Grady
It's funny; Luther and I have written many songs together, but we've never written songs in the same room.
Richard Marx
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
H. G. Bissinger
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An awful lot has been written about my temper.


Norman Schwarzkopf
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Good copy can't be written with tongue in cheek, written just for a living. You've got to believe in the product.
David Ogilvy
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.


Irwin Shaw
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What would Chaucer have written about if men were perfect?


Pete Hamill
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'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is very simply written.


Peter Hook
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Black history is American history.


Morgan Freeman