Fannie Flagg Quotes

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• Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.
• It’s funny, most people can be around someone and then gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened
• In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
• I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.
• I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in…
• Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
• 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…
• 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…
• I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
• 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…
• 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…
• Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance.
• 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…
• Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?
• I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.
• 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…
• You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
• 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…
• There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt, Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 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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