List of Paul Fussell Quotes

Every War Is Ironic Because Every War Is Worse Than Expected. Every War Constitutes An Irony Of Situation Because Its Means Are So Melodramatically Disproportionate To Its Presumed Ends.

All The Pathos And Irony Of Leaving One’s Youth Behind Is Thus Implicit In Every Joyous Moment Of Travel

If Truth Is The Main Casualty In War, Ambiguity Is Another.

So Many Bright Futures Consigned To The Ashes Of The Past.so Many Dreams Lost In The Madness That Had Engulfed Us.except For A Few Widely Scattered Shouts Of Joy,the Survivors Of The Abyss Sat Hollow-eyed And Silent, Trying To Comprehend A World Without War.

If The Guidebook Used To Be Critical, Today It Seems Largely A Celebratory Adjunct To The Publicity Operations Of Hotels, Resorts, And Even Countries.

Understanding The Past Requires Pretending That You Don't Know The Present.

If The Term Discussion Has Always Seemed To Me To Imply Mild Warnings Of Wasted Time, Workshop Sets Off A Clangorous Alarm.

Things Without Defense: Insects, Kittens, Small Boys.

Travel At Its Truest Is Thus An Ironic Experience.

A Guide Book Is Addressed To Those Who Plan To Follow The Traveler, Doing What He Has Done, But More Selectively. A Travel Book, In Its Purest, Is Addressed To Those Who Do Not Plan To Follow The Traveler At All, But Who Require The Exotic Or Comic Anomalies, Wonders And Scandals Of The Literary Form Romance Which Their Own Place Or Time Cannot Entirely Supply.

The Past Is Not The Present: Pretending It Is Corrupts Art And Thus Both Rots The Mind And Shrivels The Imagination And Conscience.

Tourism Requires That You See Conventional Things, And That You See Them In A Conventional Way.