“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“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.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We’re all part of the same compost heap. We’re all singing, all dancing crap of the world.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
Admin- Thanks for the quotes!!! I could never figure how this movie actually made release. I remember how it was universally decried as ultra violent and shit on by every single critic coast to coast.
Clearly, it was not the violent message that needed to be subverted. Rather, the message that a small motivated group of anti-bankers could alter the status quo, was/is totally unacceptable.
Chuck laid it out so beautifully, no movie/book captured the American scenery for coming of age Gen X as Fight Club did.