Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment. — 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
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. It requires feeling its own pressure on your pulses without any… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm. — 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: one knows that… — 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
