Below are quotations from the must-see movie Fight Club, 1999 based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996. Screenplay by Jim Uhls, directed by David Fincher; Starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton
- This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
- If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
- And I wasn't the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue.
- 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.
- If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
- It used to be enough that when I came home angry and knowing that my life wasn't toeing my five-year plan, I could clean my condominium or detail my car. Someday I'd be dead without a scar and there would be a really nice condo and car.
- Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer.... Maybe self-destruction is the answer.
- I felt sorry for guys packing into gyms trying to look how Calvin Klein or Tommy Hilfiger told them to.
- At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.
- It's only after you've lost everything, that you're free to do anything.
- You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.
- 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. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.
- Only in death are we no longer part of Project Mayhem.
- Fuck Martha Stewart. Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic; it's all going down, man.
- Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need.
- You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.
- No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.
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