Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 5

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• Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Strong, Block

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.986, 谷月社

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• She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

  Margaret Mitchell

  Trying, Gloss, Brutal

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.391, Hamilton Books

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• [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

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  Adjustment, Merciful

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.209, Hamilton Books

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• It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, These Days, Pleasant

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.212, Hamilton Books

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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.

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  Twilight, Talking, Two

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

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• Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1, Hamilton Books

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• what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?

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  Boys, Fine, Has Beens

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.319, Hamilton Books

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• These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

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  Rome, Three, Alliances

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.94, Hamilton Books

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• Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Men, Want, Butlers

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.156, Hamilton Books

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• She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.

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  Simple, Wind, Rivers

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.16, Hamilton Books

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• 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

  Girl, Nice, Kissing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.290, 谷月社

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• God help the man who ever really loves you.

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  Love You, Men, Wind

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

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• But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.

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  Clouds, Storm, World

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.550, Simon and Schuster

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• Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

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  Sunset, Southern, Causes

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.34.

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• Times were so hard it was difficult to feed and lodge humans, much less animals.

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  Animal, Difficult, Humans

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.354, Hamilton Books

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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.

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  Mercy, Worn, Fine

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.155, Hamilton Books

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• Sometimes Frank sighed, thinking he had caught a tropic bird, all flame and jewel color, when a wren would have served him just as well. In fact, much better.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Flames, Jewels

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.896, Simon and Schuster

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• What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Money, Civilization, People

  Gone with theWind pt. 2, ch. 9 (1936)

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• Sir" said Mrs. Meade indignantly. "There are NO deserters in the Confederate army." "I beg your pardon," said Rhett with mock humility. "I meant those thousands on furlough who FORGOT to rejoin their regiments and those who have been over their wounds for six months but who remain at home, going about their usual business or doing the spring plowing.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Spring, Home, Humility

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.185, Hamilton Books

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• I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Movie, Great Year, Wind

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

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  Military, Hero, Fighting

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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• You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate,' Ellen told her daughter. 'You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Gentlemen do not like forward girls.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Daughter, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.37, Hamilton Books

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• I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, I Can

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.590, Simon and Schuster

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• Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

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  Different, Want, Emptiness

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.460, Hamilton Books

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• I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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  Husband, Long, Waiting

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