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->''This narrative relies significantly on personal accounts, often contradictory and sometimes demonstrably wrong. Modern oral historians and TV documentary-makers treat with reverence the tales of very old men and women, but the memories of such witnesses often play them false.''
-->-- ''Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942'', by Max Hastings.
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-->-- '''Narrator''', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''

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-->-- '''Narrator''', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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->'''Augustine:''' Is that the truth, or the truth you tell yourself?\\
'''The Emperor:''' What is the difference?
-->-- ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth''
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->'''Kai:''' We have real work to do. What have I told you about the Incarnations?\\
'''Simon:''' Practically nothing.\\
''[beat]''\\
'''Kai:''' Yes, that sounds like me.
-->-- ''Literature/TheTravelersGate''
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->ok history lesson motherfucker\\
[flagrantly wrong information]
-->--'''amphetameme''', Website/{{Tumblr}}
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--> ''[[Literature/ForgottenRealms Shadows of Doom]]'' by Ed Greenwood

-> '''Warden:''' [Morrigan] knows how you extend your unnatural lifespan.
-> '''Flemeth:''' That she does. The question is, do ''you''?
-->- ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins''

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'''Flemeth:''' That she does. The question is, do ''you''?
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--> ''[[ForgottenRealms Shadows of Doom]]'' by Ed Greenwood

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-> The writer had been a perfect crazed-wits, Elminster decided early on, and paranoid to boot. What little magic the Netherese mage had set down was twisted by [[TheRant the periodic ravings of a tenuous sanity]] and by the suspicion-driven cloaking of facts in a torturous maze of codes, obtuse jargon, deliberate misinformation, and [[MagiBabble mystical gibberish]]. The obvious intent was to conceal magical truths from unauthorized readers--all relatively sane wizards, for instance.

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-> The ->''The writer had been a perfect crazed-wits, Elminster decided early on, and paranoid to boot. What little magic the Netherese mage had set down was twisted by [[TheRant the periodic ravings of a tenuous sanity]] and by the suspicion-driven cloaking of facts in a torturous maze of codes, obtuse jargon, deliberate misinformation, and [[MagiBabble mystical gibberish]]. The obvious intent was to conceal magical truths from unauthorized readers--all relatively sane wizards, for instance.''


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->''"Many stories are told of Zaphod Beeblebrox's journey to the Frogstar. 10% of them are 95% true, 14% of them are 65% true, 35% of them are only 5% true, and all the rest of them are told by Zaphod Beeblebrox."''
-->-- '''Narrator''', ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy''
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-> '''Warden:''' [Morrigan] knows how you extend your unnatural lifespan.
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