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 purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader’s mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“The society would permit no books of fiction in its collection because the town fathers believed that fiction ‘worketh abomination and maketh a lie.’”
—For the State of Rhode Island, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“Coincidence is a pimp and a cardsharper in ordinary fiction but a marvelous artist in the patterns of facts recollected by a non-ordinary memorist.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)