There’s a Fight Club quote that never made it to the screen. And you’ll instantly know why.

Here it is: In the movie Tyler says to Jack about Marla: “She’s a predator posing as a house pet.” I know, I know — you know that one.

But then Tyler says something strange, he says, “The shit that came out of this woman’s mouth, I had never heard!”

But what has he heard?

In the Fight Club screenplay by Jim Uhls, third draft, Tyler’s smoking, one of those post-coital cigarettes I heard are so good …

Thing is, I only smoke when I’m drunk, and when I’m drunk, I don’t remember, so — for me — it’s a catch 22 with those post-coital cigarettes …

Anyway: Good girl Marla Singer puts her lips to Tyler’s ear and whispers:

“I want to have your abortion.”

I mean a woman telling you she wants to have your child? That’s so often said, it’s a fucking cliché.

But … an abortion? That’s true love.

I cried for eleven days.

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• Title/Year: Fight Club/1990
• Written by: Screenplay by Jim Uhls
• Directed by: David Fincher
• Starring: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter