Easy DB question

Regarding sqLite: i want to store a string larger than 255. Now if it would have been mySqlite, i would have assigned the column a TEXT value, which is excactly what i have done, but it still seems like it only stores 255 characters. Because 255 IS the largest amoun of characters a varchar can hold right?

Yeah and also, for a really long text, maybe 2000 chars or so, would it be smarter to read the text from a file than to have it on the db? The text does not compromise security and will only be acessed by the users once.