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Fannie Flagg Quotes
Best Quotes by Fannie Flagg (Top 10)
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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
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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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You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
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Don't give up before the miracle happens.
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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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You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
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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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You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.
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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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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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More Fannie Flagg Quotes
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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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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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That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
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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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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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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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By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
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It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
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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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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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Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
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