Fried Green Tomatoes - The Nature of Storytelling and Truth
Ruth:
I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake.
Idgie:
What lake?
Ruth:
The one that use to be here.
Idgie:
Well, that was just a lie.
Ruth:
I know that, fool. Tell me anyway. Tell me a story.
Idgie: [Walks over to Ruth, who has just passed away, and begins sobbing]
Uh, one time... there was this lake... And it was right outside of town. We used to go fishing and swimming and canoein in it. And, uh, see, one November, this big flock of ducks came in.. and landed on that lake. And then the temperature dropped so fast that the lake just froze right there. And they... er... the ducks... they... flew off, you see, and they took that lake right with them. Now they say that lake is somewhere over in Georgia. Can you imagine that?
Sipsey: [holding Idgie]
It's okay, honey. Let her go...let her go. You know, Ruth was a lady, and a lady always knows when to leave.
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Fried Green Tomatoes - Contradictions in Prejudice and Everyday Life
Idgie:
He won't even sit in the same room and have a meal today.
Sipsey:
Oh, it don't make no kind of sense. A big old ox like Grady won't sit next to a coloured child, but he eats eggs... shoots right out of a chicken's ass.
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The Help - Making Choices and Embracing Life's Potential
Constantine Jefferson: [to Eugenia]
Every day you're not dead in the ground, when you wake up in the morning, you're gonna have to make some decisions. Got to ask yourself this question: "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today?" You hear me today? "Am I gonna believe all them bad things them fools say about me today? You hear me today?" All right? As for your mama, she didn't pick her life. It picked her. But you, you're gonna do something big with yours. You wait and see.
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