Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in… — Paul Fussell Copy Share
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. — Paul Fussell Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon. — Paul Fussell Copy Share
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any ex post… — Paul Fussell Copy Share
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse… — Paul Fussell Copy Share
“Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share
