Quotes
The Classics
"The things you own end up
owning you"
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a
time"
The first line - "People were always asking me if I knew Tyler
Durden"
The last line - "You met me at a very strange time in my
life"
The Narrator
"Is that your blood?" - "Some
of it, why?"
"I want bowel cancer!"
"With a gun barrel between
your teeth you speak only in vowels"
"The next fucking guy to leave
this room gets
a...a LEAD SALAD!!!" He actually ad-libbed this!!! What
a star.
"How embarrassing - a house full of condiments
and no food"
"That wasn't just a bunch of stuff that got blown
up. That condo was my life!!!
...I'd like to thank the Academy..."
Geek love - "She was like the little scratch on the roof of your
mouth
that would only heal if you could stop tonguing it - but you can't"
and "If I had a tumour, I would name it Marla"
"We have just
lost cabin pressure"
"I used to flip through catalogues and wonder
'What kind of dining set
defines me as a person?'."
"So you'll be staying in tonight,
then?"
"I wanted to put a bullet between the eyes of every panda that
wouldn't screw to save its species"
"I'd be very careful who I talked
to about this, cos whoever wrote this is dangerous, and this buttoned
down, oxford-cloth psycho could just snap at any moment and
stalk from office to office with an Armalite AR-180 carbine gas-operated
semiautomatic pumping round after round into colleagues and
co-workers. This might be someone you know. Someone very, very close
to you."
Both
"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..."
"Oh, I get it.
It's very clever. How's that working out for you?"
"What?"
"Being
clever"
"You're insane!"
"No. I think you'll find that
you're insane."
First time we see the office block
scene:
"Any last words?"
"I can't think of anything."
Second
time we see the same office block scene:
Voice-over: "I think this is
about where we came in."
"Any last words?"
"I still can't think of
anything."
"Oh flashback humour, very
funny."
Tyler
"You studied stuff? How were
the mid-terms?"
"Now, do I give you the ass or the crotch?"
"Look
at you, running around in your underwear, you look like a crazy
person"
"Quit the foreplay and just ask, man."
"Would it be a
problem for you?"
"would it be a problem to ask?"
The
Others
Marla on the running-away money - "I consider it asshole
tax"
"I saw you practicing this earlier...telling me off. Is it going
as well as you hoped?"
"The condom is the glass slipper of our
generation. You slip it on when you first meet a stranger, you dance all
night, and
then you throw it away - the condom, that is, not the stranger."
Biography from
Bob - "He was born in a mental institution and he sleeps only one hour a
night"
"In the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite article
'a dildo', never 'your dildo'"
"Clean food, please" - "Then I recommend the lady doesn't
have the clam chowder"
The boss man - "Can I get the icon in
cornflower blue?"
You Are Not...
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.
The Rules
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.
The Jacks
I am Jack's medulla oblongata/colon/broken heart/wasted life/raging bile
duct/complete lack of surprise
The sacred text:
"You has to hand it him, he had a
plan. And in a Tyler kind of way it worked. No fear, no distractions. The
ability to let that which does not matter truly slide"
And the mantra:
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