Col Flagg Quotes

#1. months was ten years.

Fannie Flagg

#2. Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

Fannie Flagg

#3. 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.

Fannie Flagg

#4. I wish I could describe what it feels like to have thousands of people listening to your every word, how easy it is to please them, to get that applause and to hear them out there screaming for you. It's like being in control of one big ocean and you can calm it down or make it roar.

Fannie Flagg

#5. Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.

Fannie Flagg

#6. The north! the north! from out the north What founts of light are breaking forth, And streaming up these evening skies, A glorious wonder to our eyes!

Hannah Flagg Gould

#7. How do you know if you're making the right decision?
Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Fannie Flagg

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

Fannie Flagg

#9. The Black Man grinned at her with his jackal mouth, and his scarlet eyes knew all the secrets of woman-blood.

Stephen King

#10. Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.

Fannie Flagg

#11. Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away.

Fannie Flagg

#12. Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual,

Fannie Flagg

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

Fannie Flagg

#14. After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.

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#15. I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise

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#16. Her daughter had given her a puff of a marijuana cigarette once, but after all the hot pads on the counter started walking toward her, she got scared and never tried it again. So dope was out.

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#17. Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you're young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you're wearing a rubber girdle. But you don't know you're old.

Fannie Flagg

#18. As for the end of the universe ... I say let it come as it will, in ice, fire, or darkness. What did the universe ever do for me that I should mind its welfare?

Stephen King

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

Fannie Flagg

#20. 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.

Fannie Flagg

#21. it was Elner who gave me my first cat, after I had my breakdown, when I told her the doctor said I needed Prozac. She said, 'Tot, sometimes what you need is a kitten,' and you know, she was right.

Fannie Flagg

#22. 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.

Fannie Flagg

#23. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.

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#24. I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

Fannie Flagg

#25. In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Fannie Flagg

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

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#27. Seated in a car full of women, squashed between his six-foot landlady and Sybil Underwood, having to listen to them talk nonstop all the way to Atlanta and back, was too much for him to bear.

Fannie Flagg

#28. Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Fannie Flagg

#29. 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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#30. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.

Fannie Flagg