Posted on July 18, 2008 by WiseMonk

The first rule about fight club is you don’t talk about fight club.

The second rule about fight club is you DON’T talk about fight club.

Let’s face it…who hasn’t heard about it? The Palahniuk fan is divided into two classes. Those who have seen Fight Club. And those who are going to.

Now I come with another post about Chuck Palahniuk. And this time I’m going to talk about Fight Club, his first novel and also a great, great David Fincher’s film.

Every time I see the movie I can truly understand who that guy feels, and there’s nothing I desire more than being in the same Fight Club with my Dedicated Server Provider. He really makes my life hard…

This book (or movie) is a nice source of great ideas for people that have a lot of free time (like me).

So, I leave you some of my favourite Fight Club quotes:

“What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. [...] I’m a thirty-year-old boy, and I’m wondering if another woman is really the answer I need”

“This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom”

“It’s only after you’ve lost everything,” Tyler says, “that you’re free to do anything.”

“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”

“We’re the middle children of history…. no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives”

“You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your fucking khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world”

“I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing”

“If you’re male and you’re Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God?…What you have to consider’, the mechanic says, ‘is the possibility that God doesn’t like you. Could be, God hates us. This is not the worst thing that can happen.”

“Getting fired,” Tyler says, “is the best thing that could happen to any of us. That way, we’d quit treading water and do something with our lives”