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POSTED BY: EMMARIGBY
UPDATED: Sunday, May 14, 2006 02:26
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Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:21 AM

EMMARIGBY


Here's a challenge to see how many people remember the whole of Firefly word for word!

I'm trying to remember a quote that Mal made at one time but since I can't remember which episode it was in (Oh, the shame!) I'm having trouble looking it up. It was something about history being written by the winners, or being what people make it or something about history anyway!!

I know this is a bit vague but if someone could help me out here it would really help with a story I'm writing.

The alternative would be to sit down and watch every episode of Firefly again (which I obviously need to do till I can remember it better!). Oh what a hard life!!


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Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:32 AM

CABOT


I can't recall the exact quote, but I think you are referring to the moment in the movie after River finds Miranda in the database and they are discussing the implications of the history of the planet being wiped out.

Duh, (Sorry, I forgot for a moment I could look up the quote.) Checking the Visual Companion...

MAL: Half of writing history is hiding the truth. There's something on this rock the Alliance doesn't want known.

Is that the one of which you were thinking?


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River: Midbulk transport. Standard radion accelerator core. Class-code 03-K64. Firefly.

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:33 AM

STDOUBT


Are you sure it wasn't from the BDM?

"Half of writing history is hiding the truth..
There's something on that rock the Alliance
doesn't want known". (May not be verbatim).
~Mal re: Miranda
EDIT: I didn't need the visual companion

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 1:18 AM

EMMARIGBY


Yay! That's the one! Thank you kind people! Of course it was from the movie! I remember now!

'Corse I could always watch the BDM again till I remembered all the words!

Thanks for the help, guys!

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 1:42 AM

KEYOKE


Karl Marx once said "History is written by the victor"

Since Mal is also credited with "Goverments are a body of people usually, notably ungoverned" which is another Marx quote, could the above be it?

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"We feel the pain of a lifetime lost in a thousand days,
Through the fire and the flames we carry on"

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 1:45 AM

STILLFLYIN


Winston Churchill also said: "History will remember me well, for I intend to write it

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Sunday, May 14, 2006 2:26 AM

EMMARIGBY


Thanks everyone for the other shiny quotes too. They will serve me very well!

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