Fiction
Duke of Glendon's (DOG) Regiment - Fictitious infantry regiment in the 1944 wartime propaganda film The Way Ahead starring David Niven as 'Lieutenant Perry' leading new recruits drawn from all walks of life on overseas active service for the first time. The regimental nickname in the film was 'The Dogs'.
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1947)
“We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)