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[Evelyn is cut off in a parking lot] Evelyn Couch: Hey! I was waiting for that spot! Girl #1: Face it, lady, we're younger and faster! [Evelyn rear-ends the other car six times] Girl #1: What are you *doing*? Girl #2: Are you *crazy*? Evelyn Couch: F...

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Ninny Threadgoode: I found out what the secret to life is: friends. Best friends.

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Ninny Threadgoode: A heart can be broken, but it will keep beating just the same.

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Sipsey: It's all right, honey. Let her go. Let her go. You know, Miss Ruth was a lady. And a lady always knows when to leave.

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Ninny Threadgoode: All these people'll live as long as you remember 'em.

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Sipsey: Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass!

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[last lines] Ninny Threadgoode: [voiceover] After Ruth died and the railroad stopped runnin', the cafe shut down and everybody just scattered to the winds. It was never more'n just a little knockabout place, but now that I look back on it, when that ...

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Ninny Threadgoode: I'm worried about my little friend Evelyn. She said her husband, Ed, would just be sitting around watching his sports on TV... and she has an urge to hit him in the head with a baseball bat. Janeen: Oh hell, that seems normal to me...

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Evelyn Couch: I never get mad, Miss Threadgoode, never, the way I was raised, it was bad manners. Well I got mad, and it felt great. I felt like I could just beat the shit out of all those punks! Excuse my language. And then when I finish with those ...

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Sipsey: Secret's in the sauce.

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Buddy Threadgoode: Come on down, Li'l Bit. There's no firin' squad waitin' for ya.

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Evelyn Couch: Towanda! Righter of Wrongs, Queen Beyond Compare! Ninny Threadgoode: How many of them hormones you takin', honey?

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Idgie Threadgoode: I don't know what's worse, church or jail.

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Idgie Threadgoode: I can't believe he swore on the Bible! Ruth: Well, if that judge had looked any closer, he'd have seen that it was a copy of Moby Dick.

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Nurse: I'd thought you'd be happy for Miz. Threadgood. Evelyn Couch: [Crying and very upset] Happy? Cuz she's dead? Nurse: No that she gets to go home. She just left in a yellow cab. Evelyn Couch: [Looking VERY confused] I don't understand... Nurse: ...

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Smokey Lonesome: Like I said, you ain't goin' nowhere with Miss Ruth's baby.

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Idgie Threadgoode: One time, there this this lake [pause] Idgie Threadgoode: and uh, it was right outside of town. We used to go fishin' and swimmin' and canoein' in it, and uh [sniffle] Idgie Threadgoode: this one November this flock o'ducks came in...

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Idgie Threadgoode: See, now is a time for courage. I guess you already know that there are angels masquerading as people walking around this planet and your mom was the bravest one of those.

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