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.
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. - Paul Fussell
If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.
- Paul Fussell
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… - Paul Fussell
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…
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class. - Paul Fussell
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries. - Paul Fussell
If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable. - Paul Fussell
If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.
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… - Paul Fussell
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…
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way. - Paul Fussell
Tourism requires that you see conventional things, and that you see them in a conventional way.
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… - Paul Fussell
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… - Paul Fussell
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the travel…
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