Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 3

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Land, Dying

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

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• It is axiomatic among writers that no one ever sues the writer of an unsuccessful book. Just let a book go over twenty-five thousand copies and it is surprising how many people's feelings are hurt, how many screwballs think their brain children have been stolen, and how many people feel that they have been portrayed in a manner calculated to bring infamy upon them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Children, Book

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• I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hurt, Heart, Looks

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Kissing, Impatient

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.196, Hamilton Books

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• If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lying, Love You, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Asking, Marry Me, Hush

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.801, 谷月社

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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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• And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Experts, Way, Motto

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1000, Simon and Schuster

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• Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Years, Tree, Six Year Olds

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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'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Way, Another Day

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fighting, Want, Pleasure

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.152, Hamilton Books

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• But Rhett, you mustn't bring me anything else so expensive. It's awfully kind of you, but I really couldn't accept anything else." "Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dark, Expecting Something In Return, Please Me

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Long, Worn

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.469, Hamilton Books

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• Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dog, Bark, Fear Nothing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.438, Hamilton Books

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• And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Apology, Impossible, Harder

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1397, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Clothes, Riding, Different

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Manners, Accents

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

  Margaret Mitchell

  House, Miracle, Breaths

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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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'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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• 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

  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Faces, Strange

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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