Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 3

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Reality, Envy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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• No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Heart, Cat

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.544, Hamilton Books

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• I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Goes On, Faces

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.405, Hamilton Books

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• I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Romantic, Heart, Cutting

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.257, 谷月社

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Losing Everything, Dread, Ifs

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.638, 谷月社

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• You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Brutal, Whips

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

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• I want to make you faint. I will make you faint. You've had this coming to you for years. None of the fools you've known have kissed you like this - have they? Your precious Charles or Frank or your stupid Ashley... I said your stupid Ashley. Gentlemen all - what do they know about women? What do they know about you? I know you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Stupid, Years, Gentleman

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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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• you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pet, Devil, Care

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.499, Hamilton Books

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• She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.655, Hamilton Books

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• The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Past, Surrender, Never Surrender

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.556, Hamilton Books

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• The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Way, Conversation

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.69, Hamilton Books

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• My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Age, Needs

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

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• He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Mother, Conquer The World, Roosters

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.353, Hamilton Books

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• Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Fall, Ears

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dream, Reality, Faces

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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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• 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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