Fannie Flagg Quotes

I was, am, severely dyslexic and couldn't spell, still can't spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.

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I wrote it in longhand as an 11-year-old girl and so all my misspelled words, they'll think I did it on purpose.

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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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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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The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.

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Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it's nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies... Maggie: What do you do with all your pennies Hazel: I give them away. It's good to spread your luck around and it always comes back to you.

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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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