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Fiction

In modern pop culture and fiction, "Pieces of Eight" are most often associated with the popular notion of pirates.

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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:

    “The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
    —Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)

    “It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
    —Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)