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Paul Fussell

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I find nothing more depressing than optimism.


— Paul Fussell


#find #i #more #nothing #optimism

Another reason is that the letters are almost always funny, offering readers the spectacle of some pompous self-celebrator given ample ironic room in which to parade his self-solicited hurt.


— Paul Fussell


#funny

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.


— Paul Fussell


#advertise #affiliations #anxiety #automobiles #college

The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.


— Paul Fussell


#around #doing #morally #sitting #thing

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.


— Paul Fussell


#class #contact #lower #more #sports






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Doing Battle - The Making of a Skeptic. In between Thank God for the Atom Bomb and Other Essays (1988) confirmed his war against government and military doublespeak and prepared the way for Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War (1989). John Keegan said its effect was "revolutionary" in that it showed how literature could be a vehicle for expressing the experience of large groups.

He is best known for his writings about World War I and II which explore what he felt was the gap between the romantic myth and reality of war; he made a "career out of refusing to disguise it or elevate it". His writings cover a variety of topics from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America’s class system.

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