"Wishful Drinking" Quotes
Carrie Fisher hilariously reflects on her life, mental health struggles, and iconic role as Princess Leia in this candid memoir.
nonfiction | 163 pages | Published in 2008
Quotes
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
I think I do overshare. It's my way of trying to understand myself. By keeping a diary, I've discovered that my past is not the same thing as my history.
I'm very sane about how crazy I am.
I am truly a product of Hollywood in-breeding. When two celebrities mate, someone like me is the result.
If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.
I'm not as cooperative as you might want a woman to be... Every man, I think, or at least the ones I end up finding, there's no reason to think that they will understand what the experience of being a woman is like. They're born with enough mystery as it is.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.





