Quotes from work
Fight Club
Fight Club is a 1999 American film directed by David Fincher and starring Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, and Helena Bonham Carter. It is based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk. Norton plays the unnamed narrator, who is discontented with his white-collar job. He forms a "fight club" with soap salesman Tyler Durden , and becomes embroiled in a relationship with him and a destitute woman, Marla Singer .
“The more things you own, the more they own you.”
Variant: The things you used to own, now they own you.
Source: Fight Club
“With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.”
Variant: When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake.
Source: Fight Club
“This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.”
Variant: This isn't about music. This is about winning.
Source: Lullaby (2002), Chapter 3
Source: Fight Club
Context: You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound You don't win with a lot of treble. This isn't about quality. It's about volume. This isn't about music. This is about winning. You stomp the competition with the bass line. You rattle windows. You drop the melody line, and shout the lyrics. You put in foul language and come down hard on each cussword. You dominate. This is really about power.
“Hey, even the Mona Lisa is falling apart.”
Variant: Everything is still falling apart.
Source: Fight Club
