“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.”

— Fannie Flagg, book Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

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American actress, comedian and author 1944

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