Paul Fussell Quotes
The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provisio...
Show MoreChickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertis...
Show MoreIrony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situ...
Show MoreThe past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they ...
Show Morei find nothing more depressing than optimism.
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.