Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I am nothing, and not even that."
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"Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I was tired and crazy and rushed, and every time I boarded a plane, I wanted the plane to crash. I envied people dying of cancer. I hated my life. I was tired and bored with my job and my furniture, and I couldn’t see any way to change things. Only end them."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"We are God's middle children, according to Tyler Durden, with no special place in history and no special attention."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Only two guys to a fight. One fight at a time. They fight without shirts or shoes. The fights go on as long as they have to. Those are the other rules of fight club."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"- The first rule of Fight Club is: you don't talk about Fight Club. - The second rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club- Third rule of Fight Club, if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over- Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight- Fifth rule: one fight at a time- Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons- Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to- The eighth : if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight"
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
"Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged... What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant hand. . . he said how at exactly four-thirty the hand was perfect. The giant shadow hand was perfect for one minute, and for one perfect minute Tyler sat in the palm of a perfection he'd created himself. One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Prepare to evacuate soul in ten, in nine, eight. Chloe's splashing through the ankle-deep back-up of renal fluid from her failed kidneys. Death will commence in five. Five, four. Around her, a parasitic life spray paints her heart. Four, three. Three, two. Chloe climbs hand-over-hand up the curled lining of her own throat. Death to commence in three, two. Moonlight shines in through the open mout...h. Prepare for the last breath, now. Evacuate. Now. Soul clear of body. Death commences. Now."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"No, I say, it's fine. Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Until today, it really pissed me off that I'd become this totally centered Zen Master, and nobody had noticed. Still, i'm doing the little FAX thing. I write little HAIKU things and FAX them around to everyone. When i pass people in the hall at work, I get toally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE."
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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