56 Quotes by Paul Fussell

So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy,the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others.

There is no Apocalypse.

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that they can't hold the attention of a dinner table for thirty seconds, even with a dirty joke.

The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and conscience.

Travel sharpens the senses. Abroad one feels, sees and hears things in an abnormal way.

Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.

Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice. They have experienced secretly and privately their natural human impulse towards sadism and brutality ... Not only did I learn to kill with a noose of piano wire put around someone's neck from behind, but I learned to enjoy the prospect of killing that way.