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.

Paul Fussell

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• Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.

  

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• Well, it was one of my most gratifying experiences because I could devote my knowledge and my talent for the good for the City of Washington, and all the Federal projects where the Fine Arts Commission had jurisdiction, and it was a tremendous experience.

  

  Felix de Weldon
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• For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.

  

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen
  • Up
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• First time I saw Elvis was at the Lubbock County fairgrounds in Lubbock, Texas. He was on the back end of a truck. There was about 1500 screaming kids.

  

  Mac Davis
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• That is the core of Trump. He is undoubtedly an idiot, but do not underestimate how good he is at that.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Good
  • Trump
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• It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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  • Doing
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• We are not Marxist or capitalist; we are for the poor people.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
  • People
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  • Poor People

• I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Vegetarian
  • Seafood

• Career diversification ain't a bad thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Diversification

• If I wasn't a golfer, I would still be miserable - but not as miserable.

  

  Larry David
  • Would
  • Miserable
  • Still

• I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Good
  • Think
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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.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Life
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• America has deep, fundamental institutions that take a long time to replicate.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Time
  • Long
  • America

• Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

  

  Karl Pearson
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  • Reason
  • Order

• Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.

  

  Nicki Minaj
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  • Strange

• 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.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Respect
  • Friend
  • Capacity

• Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • God
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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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • Lonely

• It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.

  

  Ginger Baker Cream
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  • Feels

• Rock 'n' roll offered me a platform to speak what I felt. It also offered me a platform to support my mama and my brothers and sisters - twelve children.

  

  Little Richard
  • Children
  • Support
  • Rock

• Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Imagination

• I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Facts
  • Poet
  • Minds

• The audiences like to think that satire is doing something. But, in fact, it is mostly to leave themselves satisfied. Satisfied rather than angry, which is what they should be.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Should
  • Audience
  • Angry

• Anybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.

  

  Paul Fussell
  • Facts
  • Unpleasant
  • Curmudgeon