Paul Fussell Quotes
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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.
— Zachary Levi
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
— Paul Fussell
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
— Paul Fussell
And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
— Paul Fussell
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.
— Paul Fussell
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
— Paul Fussell
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. — Paul Fussell
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
— Paul Fussell
There is no Apocalypse.
— Paul Fussell
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
— Paul Fussell
Their excessive consumption of fiction was an essential distraction from their broken home.
— Michael Ebner
I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
— Paul Fussell
Do your best. Live. Create. Fail.
— N.D. Wilson
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.
— Paul Fussell
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
— Paul Fussell
I want to be involved in soccer some way.
— Brian McBride
Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.
— Lemmy Kilmister
I remember reading Paul Fussell my first year teaching at U of Hawai'i and being like, oh, it has a turn! Why didn't anyone tell me?
— Juliana Spahr
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
— Paul Fussell
But it's what the world does to people. It makes some of us feel ugly and it makes some of us look like criminals, like angry fools.
— Jacqueline Woodson
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
— Paul Fussell
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.
— Paul Fussell
Only the dull don't doubt!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
— Paul Fussell
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
— Paul Fussell
Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.
— Paul Fussell