“ 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. Paul Fussell
“ The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. Paul Fussell
“ If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces. Paul Fussell
“ The day after the British entered the war Henry James wrote a friend:The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness... is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which w… Paul Fussell
“ Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war. Paul Fussell
“ The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provision for transmitting news like “I have lost my left leg” or “I have been admitted into hospital wounde… Paul Fussell
“ Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends. Paul Fussell
