Paul Fussell - War Quotes

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

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If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.

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So many bright futures consigned to the ashes of the past.So many dreams lost in the madness that had engulfed us.Except for a few widely scattered shouts of joy, the survivors of the abyss sat hollow-eyed and silent, trying to comprehend a world without war.

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Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

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To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.

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Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.

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