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niyad

(113,205 posts) Sat Sep 21, 2013, 12:30 PM Sep 2013

some quotes of the day-fannie flagg (author, actress)

Fannie Flagg Quotes

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Fannie Flagg

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.

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.
Fannie Flagg

I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
Fannie Flagg

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

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.
Fannie Flagg

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.
Fannie Flagg

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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: couples, deep, dissapointment, fate, heart, inspirational, love, people, romance
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“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: humor-age
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“The ones that hurt the most always say the least.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“Don't give up before the miracle happens.”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
tags: giving-up, miracle
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“Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: lies-politics
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“You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!
tags: fame, life, manners, truth
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“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, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg
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“You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.”
― Fannie Flagg
tags: food, the-south
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“You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: grave-death-children-sad
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“All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love?”
― Fannie Flagg
tags: fried-green-tomatoes
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
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“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: poor-good-people
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You
tags: inspiration
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“Lately, it had been an endless procession of long, black nights and gray mornings, when her sense of failure swept over her like a five-hundred-pound wave; and she was scared. But it wasn't death that she feared. She had looked down into that black pit of death and had wanted to jump in, once too often. As a matter of fact, the thought began to appeal to her more and more.

She even knew how she would kill herself. It would be with a silver bullet. As round and as smooth as an ice-cold blue martini. She would place the gun in the freezer for a few hours before she did it, so it would feel frosty and cold against her head. She could almost feel the ice-cold bullet shooting through her hot, troubled brain, freezing the pain for good. The sound of the gun blast would be the last sound she would ever hear. And then... nothing. Maybe just the silent sound that a bird might hear, flying in the clean, cool air, high above the earth. The sweet, pure air of freedom.

No, it wasn't death she was afraid of. It was this life of hers that was beginning to remind her of that gray intensive care waiting room.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
tags: bugs, humor
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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.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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“I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.”
― Fannie Flagg, Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
tags: funny-humor
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“It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.”
― Fannie Flagg, I Still Dream About You

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