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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march.  ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881



Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland



Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland




Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim




It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



There is still no cure for the common birthday.  ~John Glenn




Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.  ~Gloria Naylor



When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe stars Mary Louise Parker

Still of Mary-Louise Parker in Fried Green Tomatoes

Fried Green Tomatoes

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Still of Mary-Louise Parker and Cicely Tyson in Fried Green Tomatoes

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.  ~Jennifer Yane

role as the headstrong Idgie in Jon Avnet's Fried Green Tomatoes,

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Mary Stuart Masterson with Mary Louise Parker,

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (1992)

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She got her first big breakthrough in the hit Fried Green Tomatoes,

Idgie (Mary Stuart Masterson) and Ruth Jamison (Mary-Louise Parker),

the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café by Fannie Flagg

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.  ~Dorothy Fulheim

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Still of Mary Stuart Masterson and Mary-Louise Parker in Fried Green

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Mary-Louise Parker is an actress whose many roles include Fried Green

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe stars Mary Louise Parker

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups.  In old age, we yearn to be kids.  It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.  ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com