"Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving you roots and a local identity. You are assimilated, and in erasing your differences and making you one of their own, the community can maintain belief in its wholeness and purity. After two or three generations, nobody remembers the story is fiction. It has become fact. And this is how history is made."

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Source : Camilla Gibb (2007). “Sweetness in the Belly”, p.84, Penguin

Camilla Gibb

#Two Quotes #Roots Quotes #Differences Quotes

“I'll die young, but it's like kissing God.”
“I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.”
“As a kid, I was heavily into martial arts and wanted to be the next Jean-Claude Van Damme.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A man will will never know a woman until he knows her work.”
“Whoever is a complete person does not need to be an authority.”

Source : Max Stirner (1967). “The False Principle of Our Education: Or, Humanism and Realism”, Ralph Myles Pub
“Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.”
“I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.”
“My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.”

Source : Ivy Compton-Burnett (2011). “A Heritage and its History”, p.3, A&C Black

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