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Post by Mulligan on Sept 5, 2014 0:49:38 GMT -6
And the winner is: DC "History is written by the winners." -- George Orwell, London Tribune, 1944 I have uncovered very weak evidence that the Oxford University Press publication Social Forces -- in a 1930 edition of the journal -- printed an essay (author unknown) that contained the phrase "History is written by the survivors." Reading through the script for Braveheart, I have discovered, to my horror, that screenwriter Randall Wallace actually wrote the Narrator's line as, "I shall tell you of William Wallace. Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes." Written that way, it's easy to understand Wallace's Academy Award nomination. DC's instinct was correct that my submission of the quote was a mash-up, or medley of phrase parts. Making the matter worse, the "Quotations" website I was browsing had confused the screenwriter Wallace with the historical Wallace, no doubt because of the film's titular subject, and off I went down a rabbit hole. I concede. Mulligan
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Post by Mulligan on Sept 27, 2014 16:46:18 GMT -6
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