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Remember, if people talk behind your back, it only that you are two steps ahead of them.
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If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best.
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When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life.
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Fannie Flagg |
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you can't have compassion unless you have a certain loyalty to the human race.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Now, I'm not saying they can help it, all I am saying is that in order for this world to keep on progressing the women have got to run things. The trick is to do it without them knowing it.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was
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and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!
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Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, "Here! This is what you wanted," and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what a..
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menopause
small-town-life
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His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.
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They gave Saint Patrick his own day and what did he do but run out a bunch of snakes. Why, Thomas Edison lit up the world. If it hadn't been for him we'd all still be sitting here in the dark, with nothing but a candle,
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I eat out of stress," she told Robbie, and now, between work and her nephews driving her crazy, she was just on the verge of having to switch from her MEDIUM to her FAT AS A HOG wardrobe again, which meant she was going to have to switch shoe sizes as well. Robbie said she was the only perwon in America who gained weight in her feet."
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I hate a book that jumps around. Also I can promise
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Fannie Flagg |
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I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I
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You think people are some kind of pure, white feathered birds flying in the clouds. They're not. They're pigs and they love to wallow in the mud and dirt.
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You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature ... and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?
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In America, no matter how poor you started out or where you came from, you could go as high as you wanted if you were willing to work for it.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home.
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Fannie Flagg |
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He was worried about his country. Something was rotting from the inside--a slow decay of what was right and wrong. It was as if hundreds of cynical little rats were chewing at its very fiber, gnawing away year by year, until it was collapsing into a vat of gray slime and self-loathing. It had oozed under the doors of the classrooms, the newscasts, and in the movies and television shows and had slowly changed the national dialogue until it w..
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Fannie Flagg |
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Quando sentirai il telefono che non suona, saro io che non chiamo.
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Fannie Flagg |
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It's kind of funny, really, all these years, everybody has been so busy trying to figure what life was all about, and all the while, it was just something for us to enjoy.
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It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair.
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Fannie Flagg |
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But in August 1945, Americans
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Fannie Flagg |
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Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Idgie le sorrise e guardo il cielo azzurro che si rifletteva nei suoi occhi. Si sentiva felice come si puo essere soltanto quando ci si innamora in tempo d'estate.
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Y en cambio, los gatos se comportan como si no les importases lo mas minimo. Tambien hay personas asi, ?sabes?, ariscas, que no se dejan querer. Idgie era asi
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and putting
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newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the United States and free up the men for combat duty.
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he surprised her by signing, "You are the most beautiful girl in the world." Ander didn't know it, but he had signed, "You are the most beautiful squirrel in the world."
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Fannie Flagg |
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They always said, that once you've been to Milwaukee, you're never the same.
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Fannie Flagg |
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They also learned that the very best way to start a marriage was with a good laugh.
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Fannie Flagg |
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you just don't know how bad it feels to have people who don't even know you hate you, and for something you had nothing to do with.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Marry a nearsighted man and you'll never look old.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Clyde. This here's Bonnie.
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Fannie Flagg |
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What can I tell you about the town? I suppose if you had driven through it back
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I don't know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I'm just thrown for a loop and back. I can't even think about what to do.
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No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A
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Fannie Flagg |
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as they walked home, and she would
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Well, they are trying to get rid of Christianity and once they do that, then you watch. Our taxes will go up and they'll take all our guns away and the next thing you know, a communist or a socialist will get in the White House and then it will be all over.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Every woman wants to get married and have children.
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Fannie Flagg |
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Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top,
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Fannie Flagg |
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Those Russkies won't put up with your whining and bellyaching for one second. I believe in freedom and individual rights as well as the next man but nobody has the right to live here and do nothing but run us down.
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Fannie Flagg |
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do you know that's the same woman
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Fannie Flagg |
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your camellias are holding up
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