| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 23140 |
| QUOTATION: | It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Brian Friel (b. 1929), Irish playwright, author. Hugh, in Translations, act 3. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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