Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (1996)

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You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

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The amazing miracle of death, when one second you're walking and talking, and the next second you're an object.

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You don't care where I live or how I feel, or what I eat or how I feed my kids or how I pay the doctor if I get sick, and yes I am stupid and bored and weak, but I am still your responsibility.

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

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What you have to understand, is your father was your model for God.

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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. The farther you run, the more God wants you back.

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When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be the corporations that name everything, the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.

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Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.

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There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

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I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look up to him and expect him to change their world. Tyler is capable and free, and I am not.

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It's not enough to be numbered with the grains of sand on the beach and the stars in the sky.

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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.

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I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

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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.

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How everything you ever love will reject you or die. Everything you ever create will be thrown away. Everything you're proud of will end up as trash.

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Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. And the phone rang and Tyler answered. "If you don't know what you want," the doorman said, "you end up with a lot you don't." May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect. Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.

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Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

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Get married before the sex gets boring or you'll never get married.

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I think they've always gone on. I've gotten some irate letters from oldsters saying "We did this in the 1930s. You didn't invent anything." And I'm like, "Gramps, you should have put a name on it and sold it, because that's all I did."

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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.

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

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Being tired isn't the same as being rich, but most times it's close enough.

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We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.

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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

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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.

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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. I have to wash out and flatten my soup cans. And account for every drop of used motor oil. And I have to foot the bill for nuclear waste and buried gasoline tanks and landfilled toxic sludge dumped a generation before I was born.

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The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor or an art director says.

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Without just one nest
A bird can call the world home
Life is your career

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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.

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It's so quiet this high up, the feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. You do the little job you're trained to do. Pull a lever. Push a button. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die.

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