A Quote by Edward Jay Epstein

The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — © Edward Jay Epstein
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area.
It's my memory, and what happened between that moment 10 or 15 years ago and now, there's a lot of gray area
I’m sure there’s some self-help cheese-ball book about the gray area, but I’ve been having this conversation with my friends who are all about the same age and I’m saying, ‘Y’know, life doesn’t happen in black and white.’ The gray area is where you become an adult the medium temperature, the gray area, the place between black and white. That’s the place where life happens.
Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.
It's a tragedy. It was tragedy for Freddie Gray and the family. It was a tragedy for the city. And we're still trying to figure out how it happened and why it happened.
His mind worked fast, flying in emergency supplies of common sense, as human minds do, to construct a huge anchor in sanity and prove that what happened hadn't really happened and, if it had happened, hadn't happened much.
We're not in the area where the alleged chemical attack happened. I said alleged. We're not sure that anything happened.
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.
Forgiveness ... is a willingness to get over what you think should have happened and an acceptance of the reality of what actually happened.
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual.
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources.
Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.
Sure, I had dreams of being a star when I was 18. I could've pushed it, too, but it wouldn't have happened any sooner. I'm lucky. What's happened has happened in spite of me.
Nothing happened here, okay? None of this did.” His eyebrows rose. “Really? Because I could have sworn that something happened when my hand was between your—” “No!” - Dorian and Eugenie
I always try to write about something that's actually happened or it doesn't always have to have happened to me, but it has to have happened at some point. So every single lyric that you hear comes from some kind of story that I've come across in my life. I like to think that that maybe helps me mean it a bit more and if you don't mean it, it ceases to be soul music.
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