And the ideal travel writer is consumed not just with a will to know. He is also moved by a powerful will to teach.
Paul FussellWars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Paul FussellTravel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travellers . . . seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.
Paul FussellToday 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 Fussell