I see the strongest and the smartest men who have ever lived... and these men are pumping gas and waiting tables.
("Fight Club")
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Be famous. Be a big social experiment in getting what you don't want. Find value in what we've been taught is worthless. Find good in what the world says is evil. I'm giving you my life because I want the whole world to know you. I wish the whole world would embrace what it hates. Find what you're afraid of most and go live there.
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The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.
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That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.
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Nothing was solved when the fight was over, but nothing mattered.
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You can guess this is how men have been handling Eva's hostility for her whole life. Just distract her. Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.
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