evidence: A post shared on Facebook claims that "Fight Club" contains the line, "We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we don’t like." [...] The website Quote Investigator traced the earliest strong match for the statement back to a 1928 newspaper column by American humorist and journalist Robert Quillen, though elements of the quote appeared earlier. In that column, he defined "Americanism" as "using money you haven’t earned to buy things you don’t need to impress people you don’t like." [...] The quote was likely attributed to "Fight Club" because it sounded like something that might have been said in the book or movie, according to Quote Investigator. At one point in the book, a character says, "Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don’t need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don’t really need."