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No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#album #am #artist #be true #change

Each of us knows that we have an obligation to care for the old, the young and the sick. We stand strongest when we stand with the weakest among us. ↗

— Sarah Palin

#care #each #knows #obligation #old

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#break #everything #make #maybe #ourselves

I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#always #conventional way #get #heartbreaking #i

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#does #feathers #make #sticking #up

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#correct #life #mistake #spend #trying

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#ending #life #minute #one minute #snowflake

If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#different #different person #different place #i #if i could

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it? ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom