Margaret Mitchell Quotes
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Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.
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In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.
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Practically everybody is suing everybody else these days.
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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
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All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.
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So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
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I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.
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I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.
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He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
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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.
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People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.
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Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them.
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I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.
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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
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If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
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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
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I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.
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Never pass up new experiences Scarlett, They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler
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I will think about that tomorrow!
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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!
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Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?
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Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
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It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.