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I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
Margaret Mitchell -
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
Margaret Mitchell
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They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
Margaret Mitchell -
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Margaret Mitchell -
All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.
Margaret Mitchell -
I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
Margaret Mitchell -
I will think about that tomorrow!
Margaret Mitchell -
Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.
Margaret Mitchell
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Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.
Margaret Mitchell -
She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.
Margaret Mitchell -
Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell -
No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.
Margaret Mitchell -
Never pass up new experiences Scarlett, They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
Margaret Mitchell -
God help the man who ever really loves you.
Margaret Mitchell
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
Margaret Mitchell -
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Margaret Mitchell -
Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.
Margaret Mitchell -
What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.
Margaret Mitchell -
Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett – I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!
Margaret Mitchell -
Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?
Margaret Mitchell
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The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.
Margaret Mitchell -
How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
Margaret Mitchell -
I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
Margaret Mitchell -
All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.
Margaret Mitchell