a neighborhood park all covered with cheese

“I confide in everyone. I have no restricted private self, reserved specifically for certain trusted special people. I trust and mistrust anyone. I have traveled a full circle. But this time, on returning to zero again, I am able to act out the mistake more adeptly. I am on my way to becoming a very skilled loser. A specialist, a loser to end all losers. A flair for failing. I do it with style and finesse.” – The Princess Diarist by Carrie Fisher

“…previously unseen photos of Carrie Fisher for setting the [Slave Leia] hair style.” (The Mystery of the Princess Leia Costume)

“It’s pretty apparent that humor is the diaphanous cover I use to protect myself. When someone creates this superstructure of verbiage and mental activity, it’s obvious she has some discomfort with emotion. Humor has always been my armor, which is kind of fantastic, because I take things very seriously.” – Carrie Fisher

“I always felt as if I were looking out of this enormous melon-shaped head at a world that I couldn’t manage. But whether or not I could manage the world, I could describe it, I could comment on it. I might not be able to escape from reality, but I certainly had something to say about it. I remember writing in my journal when I was working on Star Wars – I was nineteen at the time – ‘I narrate a life I am reluctant to live.’ I’ve always felt that way.”

Marilyn Monroe (ph. Erich Hartmann)

Don’t let the bastards grind you down.

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden (via thelovejournals)

KATEY SAGAL signs copies of her new book ‘Grace Notes: My Recollections’ at Barnes & Noble Union Square on March 30, 2017 in New York City.

“Every time I was upset or in some kind of vivid state I would sit down and write. It was a great outlet for me. I still have all those journals although they’re not in any special order. It’s hard to explain. I wrote them just for myself but with the idea that if somebody else read them, it might be of some help to them. Some of the journals are just typical teenage stuff, but some of the others have really good material in them. They won’t be published in the near future. My mother has been urging me to put them together and have them published along with some of my poems. Maybe someday when I’m too old to care, I will.” – Carrie Fisher

this show is a masterpiece

Carrie Fisher attends the Lincoln Center Tribute Gala honoring Alec Guiness on April 27, 1987 at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Carrie Fisher, 1987.

from “Postcards From the Edge” by Carrie Fisher (via fycarriefisher)

Yentl (1983) dir. Barbra Streisand