Quotes by Fighting The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other. Chuck Palahniuk fightingstranger 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 fightingnamesjobs 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 shoppingfightingjobs And the seventh rule is if this is your first night at fight club, you have to fight. Chuck Palahniuk clubsfightingnight 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 oregonfightingschool 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 fightingchangerunning Skinny guys fight till they're burger. Chuck Palahniuk guyfightingmen Yes, these are bruises from fighting and I'm okay with that. Chuck Palahniuk bruisesokayfighting 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 fightingangelbeautiful How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? Chuck Palahniuk about-yourselfclubsfighting What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. Chuck Palahniuk generationsfightingmen 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 fightingatheistreal 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 shoesfightingtwo Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered. Chuck Palahniuk fight-club-novelfight-club-bookfighting The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. Chuck Palahniuk 80s-and-90smoviefighting 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 fightingstrugglefall Everyone wants to be tested and challenged. Everyone would like a good, honest fight to exhaust their frustrations. Chuck Palahniuk frustrationfightingwant 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 recoveryhusbandfighting 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 fightingwritingfather 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 fightingstrongthinking«8081828384858687888990»
