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Quotes About Nom de guerre

He called himself Hristo Dimitarov, but that was a nom de guerre constructed from the names of two celebrated Bulgarian soccer players
~ Salman Rushdie
POTUS whose pants are routinely on fire Could be Dumpty the Huckster or Dumpty the Liar. With his bullshit throughout our pandemic attack, An apt nom de guerre would be Dumpty the Quack.
~ John Lithgow
At the time that the telegraph brought the news of his death, I was on the Pacific coast. I was a fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in his hands—a sign and symbol and warrant that whatever is found in its company may be gambled on as being the petrified truth; how I have succeeded, it would not be modest in me to say.
~ Mark Twain
Angleton is not to be trifled with. I don't know anyone else currently alive and in the organization who could get away with misappropriating the name of the CIA's legendary chief of counter-espionage as a nom de guerre. I don't know anyone else in the organization whose face is visible in circa-1942 photographs of the Laundry's line-up, either, barely changed across all those years.
~ Charles Stross