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I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy. — Zachary Levi

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. — Paul Fussell

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

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. — 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

The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males. — Warren Farrell

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

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

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence. — Paul Fussell

The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be. — Paul Fussell

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

What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity. — 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

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. — Paul Fussell

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
— Paul Fussell

Do you feel the magic?" "Aye," he breathed into her salt-dusted hair. "It's all around me, but most especially, here in my arms. — Susan Wiggs