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1 " Not the historians. No, not them. Their greatest crime is that they presume to know what happened, how things come about, when they have only what the past chose to leave behind-- for the most part, they think what they were meant to think, and it's a rare one that sees what really happened, behind the smokescreen of artifacts and paper...No, the fault lies with the artists...The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king...Liars?...or sorcerers? Do they see the bones in the dust of the earth, see the essence of a thing that was, and clothe it in new flesh, so the plodding beast reemerges as a fabulous monster? "
― Diana Gabaldon , Dragonfly in Amber (Outlander, #2)
2 " Ah bet she’s a dirty wee minx in the scratcher. Y’see that " butter wouldnae melt" expression she’s goat goin on? That’s jist a smokescreen – ah guarantee she goes like a train.’ Jimmy belched, considerately turning his head away to exhale. "
3 " It is a smokescreen if someone believes that they can make change without identifying the root causes which influence social disorder. "
― Nilantha Ilangamuwa , The Conflation: Politics and Politrics Beyond the Ecstasy
4 " A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he may be fooling the reader. Balance should not be a smokescreen for laziness. "
― Joe Sacco , Journalism
