56 Quotes by Paul Fussell

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 facto illumination.

Understanding the past requires pretending that you don't know the present.

To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.

If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.