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  • 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.

    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.60, Random House
  • I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

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

    Running   Lying   Doe  
  • Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

    Fannie Flagg (2006). “Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel”, Random House Incorporated
  • The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

    Hurt  
    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.391, Random House
  • That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

    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
  • Don't give up before the miracle happens.

    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
  • No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

    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
  • 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.

    War   Believe   Two  
    Fannie Flagg (2012). “Daisy Fay And The Miracle Man”, p.58, Random House
  • There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

    Faith   Believe   Doubt  
    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.777, Random House
  • I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

    Bones   Quarters   Feels  
  • 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 (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.355, Random House
  • I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean . . .

    Believe   Mean   People  
    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.42, Random House
  • Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

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

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

    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
  • 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.

    Girl   Lonely   Ideas  
    Fannie Flagg (1999). “Welcome to the world, baby girl!: a novel”, Vintage
  • It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened

    People   Happened   Knows  
    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
  • 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 (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.458, Random House
  • I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

    Wanted  
    "High hurdles didn't stop Fannie Flagg" by Gloria Hillard, www.cnn.com. January 12, 1999.
  • Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

    Fannie Flagg (2013). “The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion: A Novel”, p.335, Random House
  • In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

  • I wonder how many people don't get the one they want, but end up with the one they're supposed to be with.

  • 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.

  • I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.31, Random House
  • 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.

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

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

    Writing   Stills   Ifs  
  • It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.

    Dawn   Glorious  
  • 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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