476 Quotes by Carrie Fisher

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    I highly recommend your doing: find an equivalent of killing a giant space slug in your head and celebrate that.

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    It’s as if I tripped and almost fell into my own grave. My only intent was to feel better – which is to say, not to feel at all.

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    So instead of a bra, what do you think I wore for support, intergalactically? Gaffer’s tape.

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    I just have basically too much personality for one person, and not quite enough for two.

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    I should let people I meet do the work of piecing me together until they can complete, or mostly complete, the puzzle. And when they’re finished they can look at the picture that they’ve managed to piece together and decide whether they like it or not. On their own time. Let them discover you.

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    A lot of the time, I’m just smart enough to be unhappy.

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    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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    I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.

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