Suelle's Soapbox: Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher *****

Friday, August 7, 2009

Wishful Drinking by Carrie Fisher *****

I'm going to keep this short--this is a good book. Read it. It is funny. I liked it. Carrie Fisher is crazy. She has lots of problems. But she has a great sense of humor. So what the hell. Don't we all?

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The living are soft and yielding; the dead are rigid and stiff. Livingplants are flexible and tender; the dead are brittle and dry. -Lao Tzu,philosopher (6th century BCE)

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.-Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of the U.S. (1809-1865)

It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.-James Thurber, writer and cartoonist (1894-1961)

History is a vast early warning system. -Norman Cousins, editor and author(1915-1990)

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. -Sydney Smith, writer and clergyman (1771-1845)

One does not advance the swimming abilities of ducks by throwing the eggs in the water. -Multatuli (pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker), novelist (1820-1887)

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. -Stephen King, novelist (b. 1947)

The Great Spirit has made us what we are: it is not his will that we should be changed.

If it was his will, he would let us know; if it is not his will, it would be wrong for us to attempt it, nor could we, by any art, change our nature.

Proverb of the Seneca tribe

I have come to understand that my character is attested to, not by what I do, but what people feel free to do around me.-Dave Hingsburger