Fight Club Quotes
Tyler Durden : I'll bring us through this. As always. I'll carry you - kicking and screaming - and in the end you'll thank me.
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[ about Tyler splicing frames of pornography into family films ]
Narrator : So when the snooty cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film. [ the audience is watching the film, the pornography flashes for a split second ]
Narrator : Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did...
Tyler Durden : A nice, big cock... [ several audience members look rattled, a little girl is crying ]
Narrator : Even a hummingbird couldn't catch Tyler at work.
Narrator : So when the snooty cat, and the courageous dog, with the celebrity voices meet for the first time in reel three, that's when you'll catch a flash of Tyler's contribution to the film. [ the audience is watching the film, the pornography flashes for a split second ]
Narrator : Nobody knows that they saw it, but they did...
Tyler Durden : A nice, big cock... [ several audience members look rattled, a little girl is crying ]
Narrator : Even a hummingbird couldn't catch Tyler at work.
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Tyler Durden : [ to the police chief ] Hi. You're going to call off your rigorous investigation. You're going to publicly state that there is no underground group. Or... these guys are going to take your balls. They're going to send one to the New York Times, one to the LA Times press-release style. 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.
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Narrator : Bob loved me because he thought my testicles were removed too. Being there, pressed against his tits, ready to cry. This was my vacation... and she ruined *everything*.
Marla Singer : This is cancer, right?
Narrator : This chick Marla Singer did not have testicular cancer. She was a liar. She had no diseases at all. I had seen her at Free and Clear, my blood parasite group Thursdays. Then at Hope, my bi-monthly sickle cell circle. And again at Seize the Day, my tuberculous Friday night. Marla... the big tourist. Her lie reflected my lie. Suddenly, I felt nothing. I couldn't cry, so once again I couldn't sleep.
Marla Singer : This is cancer, right?
Narrator : This chick Marla Singer did not have testicular cancer. She was a liar. She had no diseases at all. I had seen her at Free and Clear, my blood parasite group Thursdays. Then at Hope, my bi-monthly sickle cell circle. And again at Seize the Day, my tuberculous Friday night. Marla... the big tourist. Her lie reflected my lie. Suddenly, I felt nothing. I couldn't cry, so once again I couldn't sleep.
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Narrator : Tyler was a night person. While the rest of us were sleeping, he worked. He had one part time job as a projectionist. See, a movie doesn't come all on one big reel. It comes on a few. So someone has to be there to switch the projectors at the exact moment that one reel ends and the next one begins. If you look for it, you can see these little dots come into the upper right-hand corner of the screen.
Tyler Durden : In the industry, we call them "cigarette burns."
Narrator : That's the cue for a changeover. He flips the projectors, the movie keeps right on going, and nobody in the audience has any idea.
Tyler Durden : Why would anyone want this shit job?
Narrator : Because it affords him other interesting opportunities.
Tyler Durden : Like splicing single frames of pornography into family films.
Tyler Durden : In the industry, we call them "cigarette burns."
Narrator : That's the cue for a changeover. He flips the projectors, the movie keeps right on going, and nobody in the audience has any idea.
Tyler Durden : Why would anyone want this shit job?
Narrator : Because it affords him other interesting opportunities.
Tyler Durden : Like splicing single frames of pornography into family films.
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[ while narrator is on the phone ]
Tyler Durden : Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
Tyler Durden : Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.
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Tyler Durden : You're too old, fat man. Your tits are too big. [ Tyler walks away, throwing his cigarette ]
Tyler Durden : Get the fuck off my porch.
Tyler Durden : Get the fuck off my porch.
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Narrator : We have front row seats for this theatre of mass destruction. The demolitions committee of Project Mayhem wrapped the foundation columns of a dozen buildings with blasting gelatin. In two minutes primary charges will blow base charges and a few square blocks will be reduced to smoldering rubble. I know this, because Tyler knows this.
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Narrator : Tyler, I'm grateful to you; for everything that you've done for me. But this is too much. I don't want this.
Tyler Durden : What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fuckin' condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it.
Tyler Durden : What do you want? Wanna go back to the shit job, fuckin' condo world, watching sitcoms? Fuck you, I won't do it.
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[ the Narrator's apartment has just been blown to pieces ]
Narrator : I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was close to being complete.
Tyler Durden : Shit man, now it's all gone.
Narrator : I had it all. I had a stereo that was very decent, a wardrobe that was getting very respectable. I was close to being complete.
Tyler Durden : Shit man, now it's all gone.
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Narrator : Clean food, please.
Waiter : In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator : No clam chowder, thank you.
Waiter : In that case, sir, may I advise against the lady eating clam chowder?
Narrator : No clam chowder, thank you.
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Narrator : I wasn't really dying. I wasn't host to cancer or parasites. I was the warm little center that the life of this world crowded around.
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Narrator : Most of the week we were Ozzie and Harriet, but every Saturday night we were finding something out: we were finding out more and more that we were not alone. It used to be that when I came home angry and depressed I'd just clean my condo, polish my Scandinavian furniture. I should have been looking for a new condo. I should have been haggling with my insurance company. I should have been upset about my nice, neat, flaming little shit. But I wasn't.
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[ after beating an 'applicant' with a broom ]
Narrator : I'm gonna go inside, and I'm gonna get a shovel.
Narrator : I'm gonna go inside, and I'm gonna get a shovel.
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Tyler Durden : Just tell him you fuckin' did it. Tell him you blew it all up. That's what he wants to hear.
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Marla Singer : I've been going to Debtor's Anonymous. You want to see some really fucked-up people...
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Narrator : You're making a big mistake, fellas!
Police Officer : You said you would say that.
Narrator : I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer : You told us you'd say that, too.
Narrator : All right then, I'm Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order. We're aborting this mission right now.
Police Officer : You said you would definitely say that.
Police Officer : You said you would say that.
Narrator : I'm not Tyler Durden!
Police Officer : You told us you'd say that, too.
Narrator : All right then, I'm Tyler Durden. Listen to me, I'm giving you a direct order. We're aborting this mission right now.
Police Officer : You said you would definitely say that.
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Police Officer : You said that if anyone ever interferes with Project Mayhem, even you, we gotta get his balls.
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Narrator : Tyler was now involved in a class action lawsuit against the Pressman Hotel over the urine content of their soup.
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Tyler Durden : We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.
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Narrator : Home was a condo on the fifteenth floor of a filing cabinet for widows and young professionals. The walls were solid concrete. A foot of concrete is important when your next-door neighbor lets their hearing aid go and have to watch game-shows at full volume. Or when a volcanic blast of debris that used to be your furniture and personal effects blows out of your floor-to-ceiling windows and sails flaming into the night. I suppose these things happen.
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