Carrie Fisher Quotes

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Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Carrie Fisher
Mom brought me some peanut butter cookies and a biography of Judy Garland. She told me she thought my problem was that I was too impatient, my fuse was too short, that I was only interested in instant gratification. I said, "Instant gratification takes too long." The glib martyr.

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Show me a child with a simple, happy uncomplicated childhood, and I'll show you Dan Quayle.

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There are two things that I know for certain guys are good for: pushing swings and killing insects.

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Actually, I am a failed anorexic. I have anorexic thinking, but I can't seem to muster the behavior.

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Never love for me, only obsession. Someone has to stand still for you to love them. My choices are always on the run.

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You know how most illnesses have symptoms you can recognize? Like fever, upset stomach, chills, whatever. Well, with manic depression, it's sexual promiscuity, excessive spending, and substance abuse - and that just sounds like a fantastic weekend in Vegas to me!

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A comfortable quiet had settled between them. A silence that was like newly fallen snow.

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I rarely think about my childhood. It's a slippery thing I can't keep hold of for long — it slithers out of my grasp. And a lot of the time I remember what was missing instead of what was there. I am a chronicler of absence.

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Turning people gay is kind of a superpower of mine. It's not called upon a lot, but when it is, I pick up my little pink phone, I put on my rainbow-colored cape, and I'm there like a shot!

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I slept with some nerd. I hope it was George. I took too many drugs to remember.

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No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

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Oh! This'll impress you - I'm actually in the Abnormal Psychology textbook. Obviously my family is so proud. Keep in mind though, I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal Psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?

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People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit. Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn't know was George.

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The only thing worse than being hurt is everyone knowing that you're hurt.

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Cora felt ambivalence rise in her like a genie without wishes to bestow.

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Some shrinks have great wisdom, and I will walk a really steep mile for that. But it was never going to work, because I was taking drugs.

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If you feel there's some part of me you're not getting, then that means that something's sacred.

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Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

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I always wrote, even when it was just bad poetry like 'My nose runs/my mind follows.'

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Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

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Suzanne only liked clothes she was about to buy. She knew someday she would find the exact right outfit that would make her life work. Maybe not her whole life, she thought, as she got back in bed, but at least the parts she had to dress for.

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We live in America,' he said. 'Everyone who speaks English understands you. How they interpret you is something else.

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The facts don't change, just the fiction that you make up about them.

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I don't know who you've talked to. Certainly there are people who like me, but then there are those who don't know me who gossip about me. You can't believe the things I've heard.

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She found undesirables desirable. She sought out unpleasant boyfriends, then complained about them as though the government had allocated them to her.

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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.

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Look at us we're chicks lost in the netherworld of our gender, absorbed in the world of potential purchase.

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My extroversion is a way of managing my introversion.

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I grew up knowing that I had the prettiest mother of anyone in my class.

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