Fight Club

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Quotes from Fight Club

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"I had insomnia. Nothing to do at night but leave messages on the answering machines of friends."
The Narrator Solitude
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"You wake up at Sea Tack. You wake up at the Doubletree. When it rains it smells like wet earth."
The Narrator
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"Letting go is the hardest part."
The Narrator Perseverance
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"We're living in a corporate-sponsored reality."
The Narrator Truth
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"I want to have meaning in my life. What is meaning?"
The Narrator
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"You're going to have to give up."
The Narrator
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"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."
The Narrator Time
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"It's only in death that we realize what we're supposed to do with our lives."
The Narrator Death
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"We were promised greatness. We were promised transcendence."
The Narrator Hope
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"Human beings are not supposed to sit in little cubicles staring at computer screens all day."
The Narrator Work
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"You're a slave to the history of your name."
The Narrator
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"I see all this potential, and I see it squandered."
The Narrator
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"The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club."
The Narrator
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"If you don't know what you want, you end up helping other people accomplish their dreams."
The Narrator Dreams
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"Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy."
The Narrator
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"You're not your problem. Your problem is a symptom of something greater."
The Narrator Wisdom
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"Reject the basic assumptions of civilization."
The Narrator Philosophy
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"You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you."
The Narrator Faith
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"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving."
The Narrator
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"The things you own end up owning you. It's a concept we struggle with our entire lives."
The Narrator
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"In the beginning, we're all innocent."
The Narrator
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"You're not a unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else."
The Narrator Truth
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"This isn't really death. What's the worst thing that can happen to you?"
The Narrator Fear
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"At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe it was. Maybe that's why men are drowning."
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"We buy things we don't need with money we don't have to impress people we don't like."
The Narrator Money
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"When deep space exploration ramps up, it'll be corporations that name everything."
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"You have to give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you."
The Narrator
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"Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so that we can buy shit we don't need."
The Narrator Work
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"You're always told that the underdog's the good guy in the movies, and I think we're the underdogs here."
The Narrator Courage
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"The liberating thing about hitting bottom is the only place left to go is up."
The Narrator Hope