Fight Club Book Quotes

• If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Life, Literature, Want

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• Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Hate, Needs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spirit, Destroying, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

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• We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Believe, Rocks

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• I don't want to die without a few scars.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Bravery, Want, Scar

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.48, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Depression, Spiritual, War

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Snowflake, Walnuts, Yeah

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.207, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Spiritual, Strong, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• Self improvement is masturbation. Now self destruction.

  Brad Pitt

  Self, Improvement, Masturbation

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• It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Wisdom, Freedom

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Firsts, Steps

  "Fight Club: A Novel". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, August 17, 1996.

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• The things you own end up owning you.

  Brad Pitt

  Fighting, Simple Life, Clubs

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• Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Break, Something Better

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Glowing, Going With The Flow, Want

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• "Getting fired," Tyler says, "is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives."

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Water, Way, Quitting

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.83, Random House

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• This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Losing, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.22, Random House

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• There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Real, Fight Club Novel, Contrast

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

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• Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fighting, Fight Club Novel

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.53, Random House

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• For this moment, nothing matters. Look up into the stars and you're gone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stars, Flirty, Looks

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company

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• This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspirational, Life, Moments

  "First rule of Fight Club: no one talks about the quality of the writing" by Sam Jordison, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2016.

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• It's easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sad, Rejects You, Rejection

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.17, Random House

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• May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Inspiring, Perfect, May

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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• Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Unique, Special, Sacred

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.207, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The things you used to own, now they own you.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Drapes, Used, Fight Club Novel

  Read Mercer Schuchardt, Chuck Palahniuk (2008). “You do not talk about Fight Club: I am Jack's completely unauthorized essay collection”, Benbella Books

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