Paul Fussell Quotes

If I didn't have writing, I'd be running down the street hurling grenades in people's faces.

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i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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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.

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The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to
be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified.

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