To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally. — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“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
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
"Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice." ... They have experienced secretly and privately their… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
“The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend: The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood… — 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
