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Chuck Palahniuk Quotes about Fighting

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Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Until you find something to fight for, you settle for something to fight against.

Chuck Palahniuk

Inspirational, Fighting, Settling

Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Stranger

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Thinking, Two

"Novelist Chuck Palahniuk". "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 28, 2010.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Teacher, Fighting, Path

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.110, Random House

I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything... I wish, just once, I could say, 'This. This is good enough. Just because I choose it.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Doubt, Wish

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.207, Random House

How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Clubs, About Yourself

"Fight Club". Tagline, www.imdb.com. 1999.

No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Doe, Clubs

"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Running, Fighting

Chuck Palahniuk (2012). “Invisible Monsters Remix”, p.183, W. W. Norton & Company

I tagged a first-timer one night at fight club. That Saturday night, a young guy with an angel’s face came to his first fight club, and I tagged him for a fight. That’s the rule. If it’s your first night in fight club, you have to fight. I knew that so I tagged him because the insomnia was on again, and I was in a mood to destroy something beautiful.

Chuck Palahniuk

Beautiful, Angel, Fighting

Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.122, W. W. Norton & Company

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.

Stop the excessive shopping and masturbation. Quit your job. Start a fight. Prove you're alive. If you don't claim your humanity, you will become a statistic.

Chuck Palahniuk

Jobs, Fighting, Shopping

"Fictional character: Tyler Durden". "Fight Club", www.imdb.com. 1999.

Now this is the first rule of fight club: There is nothing a blue collar Nobody in Oregon with a public school education can imagine that a million-billion people haven't already done.

Chuck Palahniuk

School, Fighting, Oregon

Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Fight Club Book, Fight Club Novel

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.53, Random House

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! Third rule of Fight Club: if someone yells “stop!”, goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule: only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule: one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule: the fights are bare knuckle. No shirt, no shoes, no weapons. Seventh rule: fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule: if this is your first time at Fight Club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Shoes, Two

"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Night, Clubs

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.50, Random House

Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Bruises, Okay

The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

Chuck Palahniuk

Movie, Fighting, 80s And 90s

"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

Skinny guys fight till they're burger.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Men, Guy

"Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

We want you, not your money. As long as you're at fight club, you're not how much money you've got in the bank. You're not your job. You're not your family, and you're not who you tell yourself. You're not your name. You're not your problems. You're not your age. You are not your hopes. You will not be saved. We are all going to die, someday.

Chuck Palahniuk

Jobs, Fighting, Names

I think it's just a matter of time before everybody realizes that I'm kind of a romance novelist ... that these are all stories about people kind of falling back in love or struggling with relationships. Even Fight Club was just a big romantic ending.

Chuck Palahniuk

Struggle, Fall, Fighting

Source: www.esquire.com

Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations.

Chuck Palahniuk

Fighting, Frustration, Want

Source: www.bookslut.com

I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

Chuck Palahniuk

Husband, Recovery, Fighting

"Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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.

Chuck Palahniuk

Father, Writing, Fighting

Source: www.mtv.com

There is a social contract in "Fight Club" and in "Choke" where the protagonist has deceived a whole bunch of people. In "Choke" it's all of these people who think that they've saved his life, and really care about him because they've embraced him and they've been his saviors. In "Fight Club" it's all of these people who are dying of various diseases, and they thought that Edward Norton was also dying so they allowed him really strong pent-up emotions.

Chuck Palahniuk

Strong, Fighting, Thinking

"Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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