I just wanted to destroy something beautiful.
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- Director
- David Fincher
- Cast
- Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Jared Leto, Meat Loaf, Zach Grenier
- Year
- 1999
- Runtime
- 139 min
- Genres
- flashback film, drama film, thriller film
- Countries
- United States, Germany
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Chuck Palahniuk's novel and David Fincher's 1999 film built a manifesto so quotable it escaped its own satire: 'The first rule of Fight Club is: you do not talk about Fight Club' is now a template applied to everything from startups to sourdough. The irony -- that the film is a warning about exactly the men who quote it admiringly -- is part of its afterlife, acknowledged by both Fincher and Palahniuk.
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
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This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.
Narrator
When people think you're dying, they listen, instead of waiting for their turn to speak.
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With insomnia, you're never really asleep; you're never really awake.
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How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight?
Tyler Durden
How's that working out for you?
Tyler Durden
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Tyler Durden
Self-improvement is masturbation.
Tyler Durden
Shut up! Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
Tyler Durden
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Tyler Durden
The first rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club. The second rule of fight club is, you don't talk about fight club.
Tyler Durden
Things you own end up owning you.
Tyler Durden
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Tyler Durden
You are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world.
Tyler Durden