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Fight Club: A Novel

The first rule about fight club is you don't talk about fight club.In his debut novel, Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation's most visionary satirist. Fight Club's estranged narrator leaves his lackluster

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Chuck Palahniuk (15)

“You know how they say you only hurt the ones you love? Well, it works both ways.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Pain, hurt

“It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, admiration, affection, Infatuation

“Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Fight, Fight for what you believe, Principles, Trying, Living

“Maybe self-improvement isn’t the answer...Maybe self-destruction is the answer.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: self-improvement vs. self-destruction, self, Self Acceptance, self awareness, Life

“Recycling and speed-limits are bullshit. They’re like someone who quits smoking on his deathbed.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Recycling, speed-limits, simile, Life

“I was lost inside oblivion, dark and silent and complete...This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Hope, Hope Is Not Lost, losing hope was freedom, Freedom, Experience

“I just don't want to die without a few scars.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Experience, Mistakes, Mistakes Are Portals of Discovery, Learning from mistakes, learning from experience

“I don’t want to die without any scars.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Scars, Death

“May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Imperfection, self, Self & Identity, Life, perseverance

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Overcoming Obstacles, Breaking Free, realizations, Stronger

“That old saying, how you always kill the one you love, well, look, it works both ways.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Killing Love

“We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Acceptance, Truth About Being Human, Contentment

“It’s not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: like, Love, romance

“Love and life belongs to great risk.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Risk, Relationships

“Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing.”

— Chuck Palahniuk, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Sacrifice, Love