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Irony is a great help in helping to penetrate fraudulent language.

— Paul Fussell Humanities interview (1996)

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To those on both sides who suffered.

The Boys' Crusade (2003)

One of my favorite quotes is from Hemingway, who said, "Never persuade yourself that war, no matter how necessary, is not a crime." … It is. Sometimes it's necessary, but it's always awful, and that's my point.

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I was very interested in the Great War, as it was called then, because it was the initial twentieth-century shock to European culture.

Humanities interview (1996)

War is about survival and it's about mass killing and it's about killing or being killed — that is, in the infantry — and it is extremely unpleasant.

Humanities interview (1996)

As a former soldier, what struck me is the absolutely heartless way that war was being pursued by the Americans, partly I think because of the race problem.

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