“I would read accounts of so-called battles I had been in, and they had no relation whatever to what had happened. So… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class. ” — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
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 Image
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
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 Image
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
