Occupation: Historian Birth: March 22, 1924 Death: May 23, 2012
All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel.
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class..
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in th….
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 r….
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the travel….
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, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in the….
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces..
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable..
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way..
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 f….
Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal….
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment..
Chickenshit refers to behavior that makes military life worse than it need be: petty harassment of the weak by the strong; open scrimmage for power a….
Travelers learn not just foreign customs and curious cuisines and unfamiliar beliefs and novel forms of government. They learn, if they are lucky, hu….
The balls used in top class games are generally smaller than those used in others..
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys..
The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time..
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another..
Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically d….
If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm..