Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (1996)

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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 totally ZEN right in everyone's hostile little FACE.

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Not everything is about money. You didn't even say, hello. You are not your sad little wallet.

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Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done...

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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.

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

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

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

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If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?' Clawing at the roof of her coffin.

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Disaster is a natural part of my evolution toward tragedy and dissolution.

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It's weird to think the place where we're standing will only be a point in the sky.

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About my boss, Tyler tells me, if I'm really angry, I should go to the post office and fill out a change-of-address card and have all his mail forwarded to Rugby, North Dakota.

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Marla tells me how in the wild you don't see old animals because as soon as they age, animals die. If they get sick or slow down, something stronger kills them. Animals aren't meant to get old. Marla lies down on her bed and undoes the tie on her bathrobe, and says our culture has made death something wrong. Old animals should be an unnatural exception. Freaks.

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This isn't really death,' Tyler says. 'We'll be legend. We won't grow old.' I tongue the barrel into my cheek and say, Tyler, you're thinking of vampires.

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And if I do fall asleep, Marla has to keep track of Tyler. Where he goes. What he does. So maybe during the day, I can rush around and undo the damage.

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On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

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Tyler and me at the edge of the roof, the gun in my mouth, I'm wondering how clean this gun is.

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Our culture has made us all the same. No one is truly white or black or rich, anymore. We all want the same. Individually, we are nothing.

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I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

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This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you

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Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.

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The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.

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If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?

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If you could be either God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?

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A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

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What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

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Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

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You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

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