"The things you used to own, now they own you."
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Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
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Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I don't want to die without any scars."
"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."
"هناك أجيال ظلت تعمل في وظائف تكرهها فقط لتستطيع شراء أشياء لا تحتاج إليها .. لا توجد حروب عظيمة في جيلنا و لاكساد عظيم .. لكن لدينا حربًا عظمى للروح . لدينا ثورة عظمى ضد الثقافة . الكساد العظيم هو حياتنا"
"If Marilyn Monroe was alive right now, what would she be doing?'Clawing at the roof of her coffin."
"You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world."
"Ok. You fuck me, then snub me. You love me, you hate me. You show me a sensitive side, then you turn into a total asshole. Is this a pretty accurate description of our relationship."
"Prepare to evacuate soul in five, in four, three, two, one."
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"
"You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways."
"Tyler lies back and asks, "If Marilyn Monroe were alive right now, what would she be doing?"I say, goodnight.The headliner hangs down in shreds from the ceiling and Tyler says, "Clawing at the lid of her coffin."
"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."
"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."
"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."
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything."
"If you could be either God’s worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?"
"Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken!"
"Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains."
"This is your life, and its ending one minute at a time."