Fannie Flagg Quotes
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
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Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
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If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
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It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
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One gal drank a can of floor wax and topped it off with a cup of Clorox, trying to separate herself from the same world he was in.
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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
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He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.
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It's funny, when you're a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you're on the fast train to Memphis. I guess life just slips up on everybody. It sure did on me.
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People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak.
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Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
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I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.
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In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.
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It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.
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The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
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No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.