“Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
“I act like someone in a bomb shelter trying to raise everyone’s spirits.”
— Carrie Fisher, book The Princess Diarist
Source: The Princess Diarist
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