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The narrator "People are always asking me if I know Tyler Durden." "Losing all hope was freedom." "A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 mph. The rear differential locks up. The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now, should we initiate a recall? You take the number of vehicles in the field, A, multiply by the probable rate of failure, B, multiply by the average out-of-court settlement, C. A times B times C equals X. If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one." "This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time." "On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everything drops to zero." "I am Jack's smirking revenge." "Jack" is used in the movie. In the book, "Jack" is "Joe." "If I had a tumor, I would name it Marla." "We have just lost cabin pressure." "When deep space exploration ramps up, it will be the corporations that name everything: the IBM stellar-sphere, the Microsoft galaxy, planet Starbucks." "Well, I gotta tell ya, I'd be very careful who you talk to about that, because the person who wrote that, is dangerous. And this button-down, Oxford cloth psycho, might... just... snap, and stalk, from office to office, with an Armalite AR-10 carbine gas-powered semi-automatic weapon, pumping round after round into colleagues and co-workers. This could be someone you've known for years. Someone very... very... Close to you. Or maybe you shouldn't bring me every little piece of trash you happen to pick up." "You had to give it to him. He had a plan and it started to make sense . . . in a Tyler sort of way--no fear, no distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide." "Tyler sold his soap to department stores at $20 a bar. God knows what they charged. It was beautiful. We were selling rich women their own fat asses back to them." "I had it all, even the glass dishes with tiny bubbles and imperfections, proof that they were crafted by the honest, simple, hard-working, indigenous peoples of... wherever." 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 khakis. You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. What happens first is you can't sleep. What happens then is there's a gun in your mouth. And what happens next is you meet Tyler Durden. Let me tell you about Tyler. He had a plan. In Tyler we trusted. Tyler says the things you own, end up owning you. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Fight Club represents that kind of freedom. First rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Second rule of Fight Club: You do not talk about Fight Club. Tyler says self-improvement is masturbation. Tyler says self-destruction might be the answer. Tyler Durden "I want you to hit me as hard as you can." "'It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." "You know, man, it could be worse: a woman could cut off your penis while you're sleeping and toss it out the window of a moving car." "The things you own end up owning you." "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." "Self-improvement is masturbation. Now, self-destruction..." "How much can you know about yourself if you've never been in a fight? I don't wanna die without any scars." "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, someone yells 'stop', goes limp, taps out, the fight is over. Fourth rule, only two guys to a fight. Fifth rule, one fight at a time, fellas. Sixth rule, no shirt, no shoes. Seventh rule, fights will go on as long as they have to. And the eighth and final rule, if this is your first night at Fight Club, you have to fight." "Even the Mona Lisa's falling apart." "Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken." "Forget her, she's a predator posing as a house pet." "Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God? You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen." "Man, I see in fight club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off." These lines are said by Tyler in the movie. In the book, instead of Tyler, a minor character says some lines similar to these lines. "In the world I see - you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying strips of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighway." "Look. The people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals. We haul your trash. We connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not fuck with us." "Fuck Martha Stewart! Martha's polishing the brass on the Titanic, it's all going down, man!" Marla Singer "This isn't a 'for real' suicide thing. This is probably one of those 'cry for help' things." "My God... I haven't been fucked like that since grade school." "It's a bridesmaid's dress. Someone loved it intensely for one day. Then, tossed it... like a Christmas tress. So special, then bam--it's on the side of the road, tinsel still clinging to it, like a sex crime victim, underwear inside out, bound with electrical tape." "You are Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Jackass." "Technically, I have more of a right to be there than you; you still have your balls." "A condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip one on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night. Then, you throw it away . . . the condom, I mean, not the stranger." Miscellaneous "His name is Robert Paulson." First said by the narrator, and later repeated by the space monkeys. "Nine times out of ten it's an electric razor, but... every once in a while... it's a dildo. Of course, it's company policy never to imply ownership. In the event of a dildo, we have to use the indefinite article "a" dildo, never "your" dildo." See Also: List of films