As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened. Kazuo Ishiguro
To me, the truth is what actually happened. Yet it is impossible to know anything approaching the whole truth about past events. Even the people living them could not possibly understand. That truth is always out of reach. Orson Scott Card
What was scheduled had no connection with what actually happened. Sheri S. Tepper
Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima. Kurt Vonnegut
I am fully aware of the concept of political revolutions. After all, that is what we hoped might happen in the U.S.S.R. and Eastern Europe, but what actually happened was capitalist restoration. Tariq Ali
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there. Annie Jacobsen