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Why Youll Never Forget The Extraordinary Carrie Fisher

1/1/2017

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Princess Leia, author, performer, daughter, mother, champion for those affected by bipolar disorder. She is remembered for her irreverent and brash commentary on life through her novels, memoirs and one-woman shows. Here are excerpts from the witty pages of the life of Carrie Fisher you’ll always remember:

The Princess Diarist

Intimate memories of behind the scenes of the famous Star Wars movie set. “… I laughed and dropped the phone and ran out into the front yard and into the street. It was raining. It didn’t rain in L.A. It was raining in L.A. and I was Princess Leia. I had never been Princess Leia before and now I would be her forever. I would never not be Princess Leia. I had no idea how profoundly true that was and how longer forever was.” (Simon & Schuster, 2016)

 

 

 

Shockaholic 

“What you’ll have of me after I journey to that great Death Star in the sky is an extremely accomplished daughter, a few books, and a picture of a stern-looking girl wearing some kind of metal bikini lounging on a giant drooling squid, behind a newscaster informing you of the passing of Princess Leia after a long battle with her head.” (Simon & Schuster, 2011)

 

 

 

Wishful Drinking

“… here’s why you cannot wear your brassiere, per George [Lucas]. So, what happens is you go to space and you become weightless. So far so good, right? But then your body expands??? But your bra doesn’t—so you get strangled by your own bra … I tell my younger friends that no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.” (Simon & Schuster, 2008)

 

 

 

The Best Awful There Is

Asked during a CBS News interview the meaning of the book’s title The Best Awful There Is (the sequel to Postcards From The Edge), Fisher explained: “When you’re manic, in manic depression, it’s fantastic. It’s the best feeling you can get. It’s liquid confidence. And it gets better and better, and better, and better, until it gets so good that it’s just awful.” (Simon & Schuster, 2004)

 

 

 

Delusions of Grandma

“I promise to point things out to you, both practical and poisonous, helpful and hilarious. I know the best rides at Knott’s Berry Farm and the words of several songs that you might find yourself singing en route from crawling to staggering to standing to borrowing the car. In fact, I can’t imagine I’ll be much of a mother to you before you begin labeling everything with language.” (Simon & Schuster, 1993)

 

 

 

Surrender The Pink

“Sometimes she’d just walk around the city alone. Watch the people, smell the food, the bus exhaust, the smoke coming up through the grating. She’d feel protected somehow, found a sense of belonging in the hectic sprawl. And the next minute she’d feel like the one who couldn’t break the code, hit the right stride, catch the wave. … She’d feel so silent on the inside, her head as quiet as a stretch of sand, a cathedral silently worshipping the life that was all around her …” (Simon & Schuster, 1990)

 

 

 

Postcards From The Edge

Semi-autobiographical best-selling novel that was made into a movie (Fisher wrote the screen play) starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. “She wanted so to be tranquil, to be someone who took walks in the late-afternoon sun, listening to the birds and crickets and feeling the whole world breathe. Instead, she lived in her head like a madwoman locked in a tower, hearing the wind howling through her hair and waiting for someone to come and rescue her from feeling things so deeply that her bones burned.” (Simon & Schuster, 1987)

 

 

 

 

 

 



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