Paul Fussell Quotes
Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
Quotes to Explore
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We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.
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I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
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Career diversification ain't a bad thing.
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If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.
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I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
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The thing about happiness is that it doesnt help you to grow; only unhappiness does that. So I'm grateful that my bed of roses was made up equally of blossoms and thorns. I've had a privileged, creative, exciting life, and I think that the parts that were less joyous were preparing me, testing me, strengthening me.
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America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.
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Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.
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Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
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Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.
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Physically he was the connoisseur's connoisseur. He was a giant panda, Santa Claus and the Jolly Green Giant rolled into one. On him, a lean and slender physique would have looked like very bad casting.
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In order to accomplish more than you ever have before, you must do more than you have ever done before.
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Wisdom begins when you discover the difference between "That doesn't make sense" and "I don't understand.
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War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace.
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The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.
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I think most people have creative ideas and have very strange, unorthodox impulses of things that they can do with their lives. I've had many of these over the years, but I decided the more important question was, 'When did I start calling this art?'
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I write what needs to be written the way that seems genuinely right. If what comes out of it are stories, then it is my vocation to believe in them and in the fact that they'll interest people and maybe affect their lives.
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Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
