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

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

Chuck Palahniuk
Fighting, Men, Generations
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.50, W. W. Norton & Company

Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist. The agnostic.

Chuck Palahniuk
Atheist, Real, Fighting
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

Funerals are all abstract ceremony.

Chuck Palahniuk
Funeral, Abstract, Ceremony
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.38, Random House

It's because we're so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on this planet with the brains we have, and the same two arms and legs everybody has. We're so trapped that any way we could imagine to escape would be just another part of the trap. Anything we want, we're trained to want.

Chuck Palahniuk
Two, Brain, Would Be
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

What I did was pour out about a gallon of Chanel Number Five and put a burning wedding invitation to it, and boom, I'm recycling.

Chuck Palahniuk
Numbers, Burning, Recycling
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

Without true chaos, we can never have true peace.

Chuck Palahniuk
Chaos, True Peace

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.

Chuck Palahniuk
Night, Glasses, Our Generation
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.66, W. W. Norton & Company

The police are asking through the bedroom door, why did I make a batch of strawberry daiquiris before I called them? Because we were out of raspberries. Because, can't they see, it just does not matter. Time was not of the essence.

Chuck Palahniuk
Doors, Essence, Police

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Chuck Palahniuk
Clouds, Looks, Sides
"Invisible Monsters". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 1999.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

Chuck Palahniuk
Long, Firsts, Language
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.27, W. W. Norton & Company

The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face of glowing press releases and reviews the most heralded women starve themselves or cut themselves or poison themselves. Or they find a man who's happy to do that for him.

Chuck Palahniuk
Cutting, Men, Glowing
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.70, Random House

Self improvement is masturbation.

Chuck Palahniuk
Self, Cynical, Development
Chuck Palahniuk (2014). “Beautiful You: A Novel”, p.199, Anchor

Because everything up to now is a story and everything after now is a story.

Chuck Palahniuk
Stories

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Chuck Palahniuk
Writing, Ideas, People

Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh please. The craving inside of me is to be clutched at by some dead girl. To put my ear to her chest and hear nothing. Even getting munched on by zombies beats the idea that I'm only flesh and blood, skin and bone. Demon or angel or evil spirit, I just need something to show itself. Ghoulie or ghosty or long-legged beastie, I just want my hand held.

Chuck Palahniuk
Girl, Angel, Thinking

She drank a glass of wine and looked for something new to ruin with her lack of talent.

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Wine, Glasses, Ruins
Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

I'm in love. So kill me.

Chuck Palahniuk
Kill Me

A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, House, World
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.16, Random House

This deluded little rube who really thought the future would be any better. If you just worked hard enough. If you just learned enough. Ran fast enough. Everything would turn out right, and your life would amount to something.

Chuck Palahniuk
Littles, Would Be, Enough
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.7, Random House

What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher.

Chuck Palahniuk
Patterns, Chaos, Havens
Chuck Palahniuk (1999). “Survivor: A Novel”, Anchor

I am Joe's Enraged, Inflamed, sense of rejection.

Chuck Palahniuk
Rejection
Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.60, W. W. Norton & Company

More than one side? You're Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass!

Chuck Palahniuk
Drs, Jekyll, Sides
"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

So if you think this is going to save you...If you think anything is going to save you...Please consider this your final warning.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Finals, Warning

You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.

Chuck Palahniuk
People, Stranger

Her voice makes me think of her mouth makes me think of her breath makes me think of her breasts.

Chuck Palahniuk
Thinking, Voice, Mouths
Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Survivor”, p.52, Random House

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