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Fight Club quotes

Chuck Palahniuk

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“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“It's only after you've lost everything . . . that you're free to do anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Which is worse, hell or nothing? Only if we're caught and punished can we be saved.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“If you don't know what you want . . . you end up with a lot you don't.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“On a long enough time line, everyone's survival rate drops to zero.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“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.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“All her life, she never saw a dead person. There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Ever since college, I make friends. They get married. I lose friends.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Every evening, I died, and every evening, I was born.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I just don't want to die without a few scars, I say.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“After you've been to fight club, watching football on television is watching pornography when you could be having great sex.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Sticking feathers up your butt . . . does not make you a chicken.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“I'm breaking my attachment to physical power and possessions . . . because only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second, you're an object. I am nothing, and not even that.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Skinny guys, they never go limp. They fight until they're burger.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“the first step to eternal life is you have to die.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“With a gun stuck in your mouth and the barrel of the gun between your teeth, you can only talk in vowels.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Where even if someone loves you enough to save your life, they still castrate you.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Maybe we should always assume the worst.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. . . . Maybe self-destruction is the answer.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Recycling and speed limits are bullshit . . . They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“For thousands of years, human beings had screwed up and trashed and crapped on this planet, and now history expected me to clean up after everyone.” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

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