1. You do not talk about 'Fight Club'.
2. You do not talk about 'Fight Club'.
3. When someone yells "Stop" or goes limp, or taps out, the fight is over.
4. Only two guys to a fight.
5. One fight at a time.
6. No shirts, no shoes.
7. Fights go on as long as they have to.
8. If this is your first night at 'Fight Club', you have to fight.
Boss: "Is that your blood?"
Narrator: "Some of it, yeah."
Narrator: "You're insane!"
Tyler: "No. I think you'll find that you're insane."
Narrator: "I... I don't know. I guess... when people think
you're dying, they really listen, instead..."
Marla: "-Instead of just waiting for their turn to speak."
Tyler Durden: "OK: any historic figure."
Narrator: "I'd fight Gandhi."
Tyler Durden: "Good answer."
Narrator: "How about you?"
Tyler Durden: "Lincoln."
Narrator: "Lincoln?"
Tyler Durden: "Big guy, big reach. Skinny
guys fight 'til they're burger."
Narrator: "A new car built by my company
leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The
rear differential locks up. The car crashes
and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now:
should we initiate a recall? Take the number
of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the
probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the
average out-of-court settlement, C. A times
B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost
of a recall, we don't do one."
Business woman on plane: "Are there a lot of
these kinds of accidents?"
Narrator: "You wouldn't believe."
Business woman on plane: "Which car company do
you work for?"
Narrator: "A major one."
Tyler: "Any last words?"
Narrator"I can't think of anything."
Voice-over: "I think this is about where we came in."
Tyler: "Any last words?"
Narrator: "I still can't think of anything."
Tyler: "Oh flashback humour, very funny."
Narrator: "Tyler, you are by far the most
interesting single-serving friend I've ever
met. I have this thing, everything you get
on a plane is single-serving..."
Tyler: "Oh, I get it. It's very clever. How's
that working out for you?"
Narrator: "What?"
Tyler: "Being clever"
"When deep space exploration ramps up,
it will be corporations that name
everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere.
The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet
Starbucks."
~Narrator~
"Like everyone else, I had become a
slave to the IKEA nesting instinct.
If I saw something like clever coffee
table sin the shape of a yin and yang,
I had to have it. I would flip through
catalogs and wonder, "What kind of dining
set defines me as a person?" We used to
read pornography. Now it was the Horchow
Collection. I had it all. Even the glass
dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections,
proof they were crafted by the honest,
simple, hard-working indigenous peoples of
wherever."
~Narrator~
"Home was a condo on the fifteenth
floor of a filing cabinet for widows
and young professionals. The walls
were solid concrete. A foot of
concrete is important when your next-
door neighbor lets her hearing aid go
and has to watch game shows at full
volume Or when a volcanic blast of debris
that used to be your furniture and
personal effects blows out your floor-
to-ceiling windows and sails flaming
into the night."
~Narrator~
"For six months, I couldn't sleep.
With insomnia, nothing is real.
Everything is far away. Everything
is a copy of a copy of a copy."
~Narrator~
Tyler: "Did you know that if you mix equal parts
of gasoline and equal parts frozen orange juice
concentrate, you can make napalm?"
Narrator: "No, I did not know that, is that true?
Tyler: "That's right. One can make all kinds of
explosives using simple household items."
Narrator: "Really."
Tyler: "If one were so inclined."
"If I did have a tumor, I would name it
Marla. Marla, the little scratch on the
roof of your mouth that would heal if only
you would stop tonguing it, but you can't."
~Narrator~
"This is your life and it's ending one
minute at a time."
~Narrator~
"I am Jack's smirking revenge."
"I am Jack's cold sweat"
"I am Jack's raging bile duct"
"I am Jack's broken heart"
"I am Jack's complete lack of surprise"
~Narrator~
"I wanted to destroy something beautiful."
~Narrator~
"You met me at a very strange time in my life"
~Narrator~
"Every evening I died and every
evening I was born again. Resurrected."
~Narrator~
"With a gun in your mouth, you speak only
in vowels."
~Narrator~
"On a long enough timeline, the survival
rate for everyone drops to zero."
~Narrator~
"We were selling rich women their own fat
asses back to them."
~Narrator~
"How embarrassing - a house full of condiments
and no food"
~Narrator~
"I want bowel cancer!"
~Narrator~
"You look good. You ... look ... like
a pirate."
~Narrator~
"That wasn't just a bunch of stuff that got
blown up. That condo was my life!!! ...I'd like
to thank the Academy..."
~Narrator~
"I wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of
every panda that wouldn't screw to save its
species."
~Narrator~
"I'd be very careful who I talked to about
this paper. It sounds like some dangerous
psychotic killer wrote this,and this buttoned
down schizo could probably snap at any moment and
stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-180
carbine gas-operated semiautomatic."
~Narrator~
"A guy started at Fight Club, his ass was a wad of cookie
dough. After a few weeks, he was carved out of wood."
~Narrator~
"After fighting, everything else in your life has
got the volume turned down."
~Narrator~
"Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War.
Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives."
~Tyler~
"You are not your job.
You are not how much you have in the bank.
You are not the contents of your wallet.
You are not your fucking khakis.
You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake.
You are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of
the world."
~Tyler~
"How much can you know about yourself
if you've never been in a fight?"
~Tyler~
"We are a generation raised by women.
I'm wondering if another woman is the answer."
~Tyler~
"We were raised on television to believe
that we'd all be millionares, movie gods,
rock stars, but we won't. And we're
starting to figure that out."
~Tyler~
"You are not special. You are not a
beautiful or unique snowflake. You are
the same decaying organic matter as
everything else."
~Tyler~
"It's only after you've lost everything
that you're free to do anything."
~Tyler~
"Man, you've got some fucked up friends.
Limber, though..."
~Tyler~
"The things you own end up owning you."
~Tyler~
"You studied stuff? How were the mid-terms?"
~Tyler~
"Look at you, running around in your underwear, you
look like a crazy person"
~Tyler~
"We are defined by the choices we make."
~Tyler~
"You just had a near-life experience."
~Tyler~
"Whoa! Now you're shooting a gun at your imaginary friend
near four hundred gallons of nitroglycerine."
~Tyler~
"Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat! It's not a seminar!
You have to forget everything you know, everything you think
you know -- about life, about friendship, about you and me."
~Tyler~
"Your mom and dad will have to call kindly doctor
so-and-so to dig up your dental records, because there
won't be much left of your face."
~Tyler~
"Tomorrow will be the most beautiful day of Raymond
K. Hessell's life. His breakfast will taste better
than any meal he has ever eaten."
~Tyler~
"I've been going to debtor's anonymous. You want to see
some truly fucked up people?"
~Marla~
"Slide."
~Marla~
"Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?"
~Boss~
"Slide."
~Penguin~
Nothing is static. Everything is falling apart.