A NEW Oxford University Press publication, What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations, reveals that many of history's famous phrases have been tweaked - or completely made up.
According to author Elizabeth Knowles "It's life, Jim, but not as we know it" never featured in a Star Trek episode and Greta Garbo did not plead "I want to be alone".
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