Fannie Flagg Quotes

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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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  Success, Adversity, Comedian

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House

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• Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.

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  Mean, Two, People

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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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  Love, Relationship, Heart

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• Don't give up before the miracle happens.

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  Giving Up, Don't Give Up, Miracle

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.1145, Random House

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

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  Heart, Persons, Knows

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.128, Random House

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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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  Lines, Behavior, Courtesy

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!”, Random House LLC

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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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  Running, Home, Nine

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.290, Random House

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• Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?

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  Running, Lying, Doe

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

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  Love, Broken Heart, Tomatoes

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.54, Random House

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• If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

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  Writing, Stills, Ifs

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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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  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House

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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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  Dream, Honey, Used

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.250, Random House

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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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  Children, Thinking, Twenties

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.18, Random House

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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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  Men, Thinking, Looks

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.160, Random House

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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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  Children, Good Life, Years

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.456, Random House

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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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  Light, Darkness, Littles

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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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  Thinking, People, Choices

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• Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

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  Girl, Lonely, Ideas

  Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the world, baby girl!: a novel”, Vintage

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• The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

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  Important, Culture, Persons

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• You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

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  Tomatoes, Bees, Charmers

  "Fried Green Tomatoes". www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• It's funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had grinned at her and tried to hand her that jar of honey, all these feelings that she had been trying to hold back came flooding through her, and it was at that second in time that she knew she loved Idgie with all her heart.

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  Heart, Hands, People

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.111, Random House

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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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  Fall, Love You, Get Better

  Fannie Flagg (2006). “Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated

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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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  Thinking, People, Feelings

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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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  Trying, World, Cups

  Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.257, Random House

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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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  Glasses, Expression, Ants

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