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

— Carrie Fisher Postcards from the Edge (1987)

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

I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence can be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Wishful Drinking (2008)

Instant gratification takes too long.

Postcards from the Edge (1987)

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

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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