Today the Somme is a peaceful but sullen place, unforgetting and unforgiving. ... To wander now over the fields destined to extrude their rusty metal fragments for centuries is to appreciate in the most intimate way the permanent reverberations of July, 1916. When the air is damp you can smell rusted iron everywhere, even though you see only wheat and barley.
Paul FussellAnybody who notices unpleasant facts in the have-a-nice-day world we live in is going to be designated a curmudgeon.
Paul FussellExploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
Paul FussellWars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Paul FussellBefore the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.
Paul Fussell