Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 2

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• It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Knowledge, Wonder, Worst

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Gone Love, Wind, Land

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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• Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Imagination, Altars

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.97, 谷月社

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Weakness, Causes, Lost

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Chains That Bind, Chains, Clutch

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.255, Simon and Schuster

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Civilization, People, Brain

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

  Margaret Mitchell

  World, Too Much, Remember

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.999, Simon and Schuster

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• Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love, Sexy, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.671, Hamilton Books

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

  Margaret Mitchell

  Uncles, Book, West

  Margaret Mitchell (1986). “Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind letters, 1936-1949”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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• The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Business, People, Forgiving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.816, 谷月社

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• I loved something I made up

  Margaret Mitchell

  Made

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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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'?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Reading, Symbolism, People

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• The happiest days are when babies come.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Baby

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• But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Matter, Behinds

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.600, Hamilton Books

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• I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Crazy, Thinking, Tomorrow

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Play, Serious, Bitter

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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• men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

  Margaret Mitchell

  Believe, Conceited, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.347, Hamilton Books

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• There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Adventure

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

  Margaret Mitchell

  War, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.166, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  War, Fighting, Reality

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Race, Emphasis, Wrong Things

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grace, Want, Charm

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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