Top 100 Fannie Flagg Quotes
#2. They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.
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#3. He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.
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#5. 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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#6. I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
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#7. As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time ...
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#8. Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.
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#9. You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
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#10. I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean ...
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#11. raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives
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#12. Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out.
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#13. When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life.
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#14. If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.
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#16. And Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.
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#17. There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,
Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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#18. You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
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#19. Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.
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#20. You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.
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#21. The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse.
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#22. You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
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#23. 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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#24. She had no interest in love. Love had taken her in the back room and beaten her up pretty badly.
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#25. Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken ... just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.
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#26. Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment.
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#27. Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top,
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#28. By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
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#29. Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was
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#30. Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do
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#31. I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.
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#32. And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.
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#33. I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison
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#34. I found out I got ringworm from Felix. If it gets in my head, they will have to shave off my hair. I'll be bald just like Eisenhower, and I am a Democrat.
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#35. After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh.
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#36. In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.
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#37. The ones that hurt the most always say the least.
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#38. On every door the management had placed a photograph of the person so they could find their room. As he went by he saw face after face of someone who used to be young.
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#39. 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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#40. I'm telling you, Dena, when you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.
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#41. Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
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#43. Claude Pistal is a creep! He is lucky I'm reasonably mild-mannered like Clark Kent.
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#44. 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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#45. It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
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#46. They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,
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#47. Well, they are trying to get rid of Christianity and once they do that, then you watch. Our taxes will go up and they'll take all our guns away and the next thing you know, a communist or a socialist will get in the White House and then it will be all over.
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#48. Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.
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#49. His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.
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#50. 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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#51. 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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#52. Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.
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#53. 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.
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#54. The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
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#55. Do you think that your worrying can prevent anything from happening? Whatever happens is supposed to happen and whatever doesn't, isn't.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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,
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#58. If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.
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#59. 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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#60. I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
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#62. 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.
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#63. Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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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#67. There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans.
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#68. I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.
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#69. 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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#70. All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?
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#71. 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.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. Almost losing one person you love shines a bright spotlight on life, and suddenly strips you of everything but your real feelings.
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#75. By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied.
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#76. Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.
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#77. Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG.
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#78. Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man.
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#79. And now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!
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#80. Every woman wants to get married and have children.
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#81. I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
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#82. 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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#83. Remember, if people talk about you behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead of them.
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#84. You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning.
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#85. That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
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#86. So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?
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#87. I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.
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#88. 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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#89. 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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#90. Just think, Ruth, I never did it for anybody else before. Now nobody in the whole world knows I can do that but you. I just wanted us to have a secret together, that's all.
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#91. But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.
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#92. Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
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#93. 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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#94. Sex, maybe, friendship, yes, but love, no. If she ever felt love coming toward her, she would cross the street to the other side.
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#95. It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.
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#96. Idgie smiled back at her and looked up into the clear blue sky that reflected in her eyes and she was as happy as anybody who is in love in the summertime can be.
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#97. Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.
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#98. 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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#99. 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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#100. 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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