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"You are my right hand man. You know what this is? Good. If for some reason, the detonation fails, this is the failsafe."
"So, you’re looking for Tyler? These guys are not gonna trust you until you fight."
"Ok. Stick to the game plan. Stick... to... the... game plan. Right. Project Mayhem has begun. Tyler's going to show us how to get back to the basics. How to weed out all the bullshit. We're pulling down civilization. We will become individuals again. The rest of the world is gonna have to get ready. We're gonna wake them up, too, whether they want it or not. There's no fucking snooze bar on this wake up call."
"Justin Gross – Hero"
"Dave Wittenberg – The Narrator"
"Joshua Leonard – Tyler Durden"
"Nika Futterman – Marla Singer"
"Meat Loaf – Robert Paulson"
"This was therapeutic physical contact, Chloe said. we should all choose a partner. Chloe threw herself around my head and cried. She had strapless underwear at home, and cried. Chloe had oils and handcuffs, and cried as I watched the second hand on my watch go around eleven times."
"This is how it is with insomnia. Everything is so far away, a copy of a copy of a copy. The insomnia distance of everything, you can't touch anything and nothing can touch you."
"Strangers with this kind of honesty make me grow a big rubbery one, if you know what I mean."
"This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom."
"This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time."
"If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?"
"One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"One day you're thinking and hauling yourself around, and the next, you're cold fertilizer, worm buffet."
"I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact I was breathing."
"Funerals are nothing compared to this," Marla says. "Funerals are all abstract ceremony. Here, you have the real experience of death."
"I wasn't the only slave to my nesting instinct. The people I know who used to sit in the bathroom with pornography, now they sit in the bathroom with their IKEA furniture catalogue."
"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."
"Tyler said, "I want you to hit me as hard as you can.""
"You can swallow about a pint of blood before you're sick."
"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."
"Maybe self-improvement isn't the answer. Tyler never knew his father. Maybe self-destruction is the answer."
"What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women."
"My father never went to college so it was really important I go to college. After college, I called him long distance and said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said get a job. When I got a job and turned twenty-five, long distance, I said, now what? My dad didn't know, so he said, get married. I'm a thirty-year-old boy, and I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer I need."
"Fight club isn't about winning or losing fights. Fight club isn't about words."
"You see a guy come to fight club for the first time, and his ass is a loaf of white bread. You see this same guy here six months later, and he looks carved out of wood."
"There's hysterical shouting in tongues like at church, and when you wake up Sunday afternoon you feel saved."
"Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered."
"Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed."
"After Tyler and Marla had sex about ten times, Tyler says, Marla said she wanted to get pregnant. Marla said she wanted to have Tyler's abortion...How could Tyler not fall for that."
"The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing so she won't commit to anything."
"Marla shouts to the police that the girl who lives in 8G used to be a lovely charming girl, but the girl is a monster bitch monster. The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong things so she won't commit to anything. "The girl in 8G has no faith in herself," Marla shouts, "and she's worried that as she grows older, she'll have fewer and fewer options." Marla shouts, "Good luck.""
"Worker bees can leave Even drones can fly away The queen is their slave"
"I embrace my own festering diseased corruption."
"You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night then you throw it away. The condom, I mean. Not the stranger."
"What Marla loves, she says, is all the things that people love intensely and then dump in an hour or a day after. The way a Christmas tree is the center of attention, then, after Christmas you see those dead Christmas trees with the tinsel still on them, dumped alongside the highway. You see those trees and think of roadkill animals or sex crime victims wearing their underwear inside out and bound with black electrical tape."
""Sticking feathers up your butt," Tyler says, "does not make you a chicken."
"Tyler says I'm nowhere near hitting bottom, yet. And if I don't fall all the way, I can't be saved. Jesus did it with his crucifixion thing. I shouldn't just abandon money and property and knowledge. This isn't a weekend retreat. I should run from self-improvement, and I should be running toward disaster. I can't just play it safe anymore. This isn't a seminar."
"Only after disaster can we be resurrected. "It's only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.""
"At the store, they have 100% recycled toilet paper," Marla says. "The worst job in the world must be recycling toilet paper."
"This..is a chemical burn," Tyler says, "and it will hurt worse than you've ever been burned. Worse than a hundred cigarettes...You'll have a scar."
"With enough soap," Tyler says, "you could blow up the whole world."
"Combined with water, lye heats to over two hundred degrees, and as it heats it burns into the back of my hand, and Tyler places his fingers of one hand over my fingers, our hands spread on the lap of my bloodstained pants, and Tyler says to pay attention because this is the greatest moment of my life."
"You have to see, Tyler says,"how the first soap was made of heroes." Think about the animals used in product testing. Think about the monkeys shot into space. "Without their death, their pain, without their sacrifice,: Tyler says, "we would have nothing."
"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."
"I come dragging in with every muscle bruised inside and out, but my heart's still racing and my thoughts are a tornado in my head. This is insomnia. All night, your thoughts are on the air. All night long, you're thinking: Am I asleep? Have I slept?"
"There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love."
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.