Paul Fussell Quotes

• Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

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  Military, War, Winning

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War”, p.80, Oxford University Press

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• The middles cleave to euphemisms not just because they're an aid in avoiding facts. They like them also because they assist their social yearnings towards pomposity. This is possible because most euphemisms permit the speaker to multiply syllables, and the middle class confuses sheer numerousness with weight and value.

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  Class, Facts, Weight

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

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• Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

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  Native American, College, People

  Paul Fussell (1984). “Class”

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• A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.

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  Class, America, Tvs

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• The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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  Sports, Class, Watches

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

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  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• La exploración pertenece al Renacimiento, el viaje a la edad burguesa, el turismo a nuestro momento proletario.El explorador busca lodescubierto, el viajero lo que ha sido descubierto por la mente que trabaja en la historia,el turista lo que ha sido descubierto por el empresariado y preparado para él por las artes de la publicidad de masas.Si el explorador se mueve hacia los riesgos de lo informe y lo desconocido, el turista se mueve hacia la seguridad del puro cliché. Entre estos dos polos media el viajero.

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  Art, Travel, Moving

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• "Los que luchan conocen un secreto sobre sí mismos, y no es muy agradable". ... Han experimentado en secreto y en privado su impulso humano natural hacia el sadismo y la brutalidad... No sólo aprendí a matar con un lazo de cuerda de piano puesto alrededor del cuello de alguien por detrás, sino que aprendí a disfrutar de la perspectiva de matar de esa manera.

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  War, Nice, Piano

  "The Initial Shock... A Conversation with Paul Fussell". Humanities, November/December 1996.

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• Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

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  Travel, Serious Person, Ideas

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• Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

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  Guerra, Soldado, Enemigo

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• What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

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  Want, Publicity, Journalism

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

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  War, Inevitable, Ifs

  "PUBLIC & PRIVATE; Regrets Only" by Anna Quindlen, www.nytimes.com. February 7, 1991.

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• Si no tuviera que escribir, estaría corriendo por la calle lanzando granadas a la cara de la gente.

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  Running, Writing, People

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• Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.

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  Liars, Technique, Fiction

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• Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

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  Mind, Tourism, Development

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.39, Oxford University Press

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• Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, humility.

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  Humility, Government, Lucky

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

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  Nice, World, Facts

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• The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

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  War, Sitting, Wonder

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• 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.

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  Past, Illumination, Understanding

  Paul Fussell (1990). “Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other Essays”

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• Those who fought know a secret about themselves, and it is not very nice.

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  Nice, Secret, Very Nice

  Paul Fussell (1982). “The Boy Scout Handbook and Other Observations”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

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  Age, Tourism, Renaissance

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.38, Oxford University Press

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• I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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  Depression, Depressing, Optimistic

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• I am working on a book urging the beating to death of baby whales using the dead bodies of baby seals.

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  Baby, Book, Whales

  Paul Fussell (1992). “Class: A Guide Through the American Status System”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• Se refiere al comportamiento que hace que la vida militar sea peor de lo necesario: el acoso mezquino de los débiles por los fuertes; la lucha abierta por el poder, la autoridad y el prestigio; el sadismo apenas disfrazado de disciplina necesaria; un constante "ajuste de cuentas"; y la insistencia en la letra en lugar del espíritu de las ordenanzas.

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  Strong, Military, Discipline

  "Private Ryan was a hero, but there were bums, too" by Stephen Ambrose, www.cnn.com. August 5, 1998.

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• Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.

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  July, Air, Iron

  Paul Fussell (2013). “The Great War and Modern Memory”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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