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Men Quotes by Chuck Palahniuk
- The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as if being a man means looking the way a sculptor…
- For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing…
- Skinny guys fight till they're burger.
- No, Miss Wright didn't want to meet her kid. To her, that relationship was just as important, just as ideal and impossible as it would…
- And it's funny how when somebody saves you, the first thing you want to do is save other people. All other people. Everybody. The kid…
- I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
- I love everything about Tyler Durden, his courage and his smarts. His nerve. Tyler is funny and charming and forceful and independent, and men look…
- 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…
- The moment the world declares a person to be immortal, at that moment the person will strive to prove the world wrong. In the face…
- What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
- Cassie Wright knows, the moment you make yourself available to any man, he starts to take you for granted
- A guy's calling to say he's failing algebra II. Just as a point of practice, I say, Kill yourself. A woman calls and says her…
- Women are already born so far ahead ability-wise. The day men can give birth, that's when we can start talking about equal rights.
- Here are the shadows left behind by a thousand moments, a thousand moods, of needs traced here on the wall by men who are gone.…
- Men want to make the best use of time and want to see how something can inform them and give them a stronger sense of…
- The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
- Men are destroyed for being rebellious, and women destroy themselves by failing to be rebellious. Unless you can make that next jump to either getting…
- A man laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer, and a woman laments, Oh, that my joy could be a little longer.…
- We have to show these men and women freedom by enslaving them, and show them courage by frightening them.
- The gyms you go to are crowded with guys trying to look like men, as being a man means looking the way a sculptor or…
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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