Quotes by : Paul Fussell

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation....

The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask tobe imagined before they are....

The implicit optimism of the [field service post card] is worth noting—the way it offers no provision....

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

i find nothing more depressing than optimism.

If we do not redefine manhood, war is inevitable.

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise....