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"Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die. "
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"I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to BE art."
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"If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable."
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"Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."

Carrie Fisher "I did masses of opiates religiously."
Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)
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"I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture."
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"You know how I always seem to be struggling, even when the situation doesn't call for it?"
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"Instant gratification takes too long."
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"Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell."
Carrie Fisher (Wishful Drinking)
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"I rarely cry. I save my feelings up inside me like I have something more specific in mind for them. I am waiting for the exact perfect situationand then BOOM! I'll explode in a light show of feeling and emotion - a pinata stuffed with tender nuances and pent-up passions"
Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)
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"Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line."
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"Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread."
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"I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere."
Carrie Fisher (Postcards from the Edge)
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"Actually,I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavoir"
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"Good anecdote--bad reality."
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"Immediate gratification takes too long."
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"I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person. "
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"The only one who didn't know was George Lucas. We kept it from him, because we wanted to see what his face looked like when it changed expression--and he fooled us even then. He got Industrial Light and Magic to change his facial expressions for him and THX sound to make the noise of a face-changing expression."
Carrie Fisher (Wishful Drinking)
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"Sometimes I think all I want to find is a mean guy and make him be nice to me. Or maybe a nice guy who's a little bit mean to me. But they're usually too nice too soon or too mean too long."
Carrie Fisher (Wishful Drinking)
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" "Never let 'em see you ache"; that's what Mr. Mayer always said. Or was it ass; "Never let 'em see your ass"?"
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"My life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer."
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