Really Happened Quotes

81 Really Happened quotes by 69 unique authors

The facts are always less than what really happened. — Nadine Gordimer
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times.… — Umberto Eco
There's the typical books, Moby Dick and, I guess in my adult life I began to read biographies more than fiction. I started to want… — Julius Erving
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No,… — Sammy Hagar
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened. — Ernest Hemingway
Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that… — David Icke
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? — Christa McAuliffe
I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a… — James McAvoy
Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. — Virginia Woolf
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will… — Ernest Hemingway
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible. It is the… — Per Petterson
Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous… — C.S. Lewis
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and… — Oprah Winfrey
Even if I seemed to remember, I could not know. For just to remember something is not to know if it really happened. That is… — Joyce Carol Oates
So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh...… — Yann Martel
Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is… — D. J. MacHale
All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell," he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to… — Nora Raleigh Baskin
remembering is a great invention of the mind, and if you try hard enough you can remember anything, whether it really happened or not. — Rodman Philbrick
They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and… — Arundhati Roy
She had realized there are only fragments, that 'memories' always consist of fragments the mind puts together into a pattern, adapts a picture staked out… — Marianne Fredriksson
It was a time when the unthinkable became the thinkable and the impossible really happened — Arundhati Roy
Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She… — Lydia Davis
The truth never shines forth, as the saying goes, because the only truth is that which is known to no one and which remains untransmitted,… — Javier MarÃas
So what really happened to you? (Astrid) Nothing. (Zarek) Well, I hope I never come across Nothing then if it’s capable of putting a hole… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that… — Ernest Hemingway

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