Fannie Flagg Quotes

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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.

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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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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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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

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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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That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

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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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I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean...

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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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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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Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

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Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants... and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them all we wanted to, we'd put them in the yard and let them go on about their business.

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I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

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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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You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating just the same.

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You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

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There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?

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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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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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