"When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.“


-John Malkovich

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When you think of how history is revealed, we know certain things to be facts at certain periods of time, which turn out not to be so factual as time marches on.

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