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Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.
Mary Lee Settle
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Mary Lee Settle
Age: 87 †
Born: 1918
Born: July 29
Died: 2005
Died: September 27
Novelist
Writer
Charleston
West Virginia
History
Voiceless
Recorded
Wrong
Voice
More quotes by Mary Lee Settle
Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.
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Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.
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the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.
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Somerset Maugham said that it took at least six human beings to make one fictional character. That is true of landscape as well, I think. We have to make our landscapes, change streets, create new turnings, rebuild or tear down, change time, and even nature, if need be.
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