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Carrie Fisher was an American actress, writer, and mental health advocate, world-famous for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars saga. Her candid humor and openness about her struggles with addiction and bipolar disorder broke taboos in Hollywood and inspired many. She is remembered as a beloved icon, whose wit and honesty left a lasting impact on entertainment and culture. Here are 99 of her quotes:

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about kindness.

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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind.

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I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

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I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

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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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Leia follows me like a vague smell.

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Drugs made me feel more normal.

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If you look at the person that someone chooses to have a relationship with, you'll see what they think of themselves.

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In my opinion, a problem derails your life and an inconvenience is not being able to get a nice seat on the un-derailed train.

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I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

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Good anecdote--bad reality.

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I shot through my twenties like a luminous thread through a dark needle, blazing toward my destination: Nowhere.

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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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And when you're young you want to fit in. Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.

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Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.

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Kevin Smith is a very challenging conversationalist and Jay has many great stories.

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I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

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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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Things are getting worse faster than I can lower my standards.

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I love what speed and coke do to my weight. It's unnatural, I know. I could just exercise....

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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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I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

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