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Paul Fussell was an American historian renowned for his profound insights into 20th-century American society and culture. His works explored American military history, consumerism, and the changes in post-war American life.

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Famous Paul Fussell Quotes

“If the term discussion has always seemed to me to imply mild warnings of wasted time, workshop sets off a clangorous alarm.”

Ifs Time Term Discussion Warning Alarms Workshops Wasted Time

Author:Paul Fussell

“Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.”

Ifs Mind Has Beens Art Two Moments Age Moving Risk Security Pure Travel Mass Prepared Entrepreneurship Exploration Traveler Publicity Renaissance Tourists Bourgeois Tourism Explorers

Author:Paul Fussell

“If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.”

Ifs War Inevitable Manhood

Author:Paul Fussell

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

Ifs Government Form Belief Novel Humility Lucky Curious Customs Traveler Forms Of Government Unfamiliar Cuisine

Author:Paul Fussell

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

People Ifs Writing Running Faces Streets Grenade Hurling

Author:Paul Fussell

“If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.”

Ifs War Truth Is Ambiguity Casualties

Book:The Great War and Modern Memory

Source: The Great War and Modern Memory

“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.”

Ifs Want Spirit Fiction Technique Narrative Liars Traveler Travel Writing

Author: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.”

Ifs Country Seems Today Used Critical Used To Be Operations Hotel Resorts Publicity

Author:Paul Fussell

About the Author

Born: March 22, 1924
Died: May 23, 2012
Known for: Historian
Quotes: 48

Books & Sources

Class: A Guide Through the American Status SystemRelated source material

Thank God for the Atom Bomb, and Other EssaysRelated source material

The Great War and Modern MemoryRelated source material

Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the WarsRelated source material

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The Boy Scout Handbook and Other ObservationsRelated source material

Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World WarRelated source material

Bad Or, the Dumbing of AmericaRelated source material

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