Conversational transcript excerpt in which a speaker quotes Carrie Fisher’s lines about marriage, rehab, and addiction (from Postcards from the Edge) and another speaker praises Fisher’s humor, vulnerability, and influence on their own taste in writing. The excerpt emphasizes Fisher’s wry, self-deprecating lines and the speakers’ admiration for her voice.
I'm a PEZ dispenser and I'm in the abnormal psychology textbook. Who says you can't have it all?
God, she's funny.
So funny. So I married Paul at 26. We divorced when I was 28. And at 29, I went into rehab. Not because I needed it, but because I was doing research for my novel Postcards from the Edge, and I needed to meet some real drug addicts and alcoholics to give the book some. Except. Was it ferocity? Yeah, ferocity.
Then read the next that you showed to the next chapter.
Right? Okay, have it your way. I'm a drug addict.
It wasn't research.
This is one of my favorite quotes of her all time. You know how they say that religion is the opiate. Opioid. Opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses.
Of opiates religiously. That's.
I mean, it's just like.
It's just so funny.
Genius. It's just the way that she can just write something that is, like you said, so vulnerable, so funny and just so honest, I think is just. It's a gift that not many people have and really, really changed for me. Changed the type of people and the type of language that I. That I look for and that I. That I see.
