Here's the second lot of book quotes. I'm in the process of putting all my book quotes into one static page, rather than a series of blog posts, but until then, here's my favourite quotes from Fight Club. Brilliant book, fantastic film.
"It's easy to cry when you realise that everyone you love will reject you or die. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero."
"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. You wake up, and that's enough."
"Most guys are at fight club because of something they're too scared to fight. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less."
"This isn't a seminar. 'If you lose your nerve before you hit the bottom,' Tyler says, 'you'll never really succeed.' Only after disaster can we be resurrected. 'It's only after you've lost everything,' Tyler says, 'that you're free to do anything.'"
"'Getting fired,' Tyler says, 'is the best thing that could ever happen to any of us. That way we'd quit treading water and do something with our lives.'"
"'You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives."
"You could be in school working your ass off, Raymond Hessel, or you could be dead. You choose."
And here's a great quote from the author, Chuck Palahniuk:
All those people that give you shit and tease you about your book, or art, or music, or whatever... fuck them. Fuck. Them. They aren't trying to do what you're doing. They aren't doing anything creative, or innovative, or challenging. Fuck them and watch how they change when your art succeeds.
Read this book if you haven't already.