Marjane Satrapi Quotes

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

I believe in research you cannot do enough research; believability comes out of what's real.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie.

Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.

Time trieth truth.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.

PROOF, n. Evidence having a shade more of plausibility than of unlikelihood. The testimony of two credible witnesses as opposed to that of only one.

The fact is the statements are perfectly consistent, but more importantly, I don't have all the facts.

At the heart of every legend there is a grain of truth.

Old stories often turn out to be true.

People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!

So, then. You want a story and I will tell you one.

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

You could look it up.

Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to take root and grow. Eventually, a bountiful fruit of rumors burst forth, to be spread on the wind of whispers that said we hid a fabled hoard of gold. Nothing could convince the believers that it was not true. The truth does not glitter for these people like gold does.

Rumor is not always wrong

At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

All the ancient histories, as one of our wits say, are just fables that have been agreed upon

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

Some say he died. Codswallop, in my opinion. Dunno if he had enough human left in him to die. Some say he’s still out there, bidin’ his time, like, but I don’ believe it.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

Billy squinted at me. "Why are you letting them go?" "Because they're real." "How do you know?" "The one I was holding crapped on my hand.