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

FightClub woke me up to various social and spiritual questions. Chuck Palahniuk is one of my favorite authors. When Palahniuk made his first attempt at publishing a novel (Invisible Monsters) publishers rejected it for being too disturbing. This led him to work on Fight Club, which he wrote as an attempt to disturb the publisher even more for rejecting him

A few famous lines:

Narrator: You wake up at Seatac, SFO, LAX. You wake up at O’Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth, BWI. Pacific, mountain, central. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You wake up at Air Harbor International. If you wake up at a different time, in a different place, could you wake up as a different person?

Narrator: This is your life and it’s ending one minute at a time.

Tyler Durden: 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.

Tyler Durden: Fight Club was the beginning, now it’s moved out of the basement, it’s called Project Mayhem.

Tyler Durden: Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

“The things you own, end up owning you.” -Fight Club

“I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn’t screw to save its species. I wanted to open the dump valves on oil tankers and smother all the French beaches I’d never see. I wanted to breathe smoke. I felt like destroying something beautiful.” – Fight Club

“I flipped through catalogs and wondered: What kind of dining set defines me as a person?” -Fight Club

“With a gun in your mouth you can only speak in vowels.” – Fight Club

 

“Contrary to what your mothers and teachers tell you, you are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heap.” – Fight Club