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What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
Sep 10, 2025
If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.
I know this because Tyler knows this.
Burn the Louvre, and wipe your ass with the Mona Lisa. This way at least, God would know our names.
Where would Jesus be if no one had written the gospels?
No, when the fight begins within himself, / A man's worth something.
The liberator who destroys my property is fighting to save my spirit. The teacher who clears all possessions from my path will set me free.
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.
Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness?
May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.
This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.
Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need.
If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.
Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
The things you used to own, now they own you.
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 I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?
Only after disaster can we be resurrected.
Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer, maybe self-destruction is the answer.
Only through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
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.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.
I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.
There was no real sense of life because she had nothing to contrast it with.
Welcome to Fight Club. The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club. The second rule of Fight Club is: you DO NOT talk about Fight Club!
And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.
You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you.
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. 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. 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.
Recycling and speed limits are bullshit. They're like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.
And it [Fight Club novel] was written so general that my father thought I was writing about his father, and my boss thought I was writing about his boss. People really put themselves, you know, in the shoes of the narrator.
"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."
Worker bees can leave. Even drones can fly away. The Queen is their slave.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
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?
If people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention.
This is why I loved the support groups so much, if people thought you were dying, they gave you their full attention. If this might be the last time they saw you, they really saw you. Everything else about their checkbook balance and radio songs and messy hair went out the window. You had their full attention. People listened instead of just waiting for their turn to speak. And when they spoke, they weren't just telling you a story. When the two of you talked, you were building something, and afterward you were both different than before.
I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away.
The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.
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