Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 5

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• Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost, Understood, Ashley

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Different, Want, Emptiness

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

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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.

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  House, Miracle, Breaths

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

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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.

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  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

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

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• I will think about that tomorrow!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Tomorrow

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• Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

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  Beautiful, Men, Littles

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear - even as you save something to love.

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  Children, Faces, Worst

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.290, 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.

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  Sweet, Faces, Strange

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

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

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  Running, Unforgivable Sin, Different

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• Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

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  Loneliness, Choices, Want

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

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• Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

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  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, Hamilton Books

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• I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

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  Needs, Care, Need You

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• I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

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  Selfish, Silly, Love You

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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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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  Silly, Yankees, Blue

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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.

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  Running, Strong, Block

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

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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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• 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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• Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.

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  Night, Guitar, Play

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.541, 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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• 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.

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  Girl, Nice, Kissing

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

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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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• So you’ll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren.” “I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!” “Are you suggesting by that ‘our’ that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Grandchildren, Waiting, Approval

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.439, Hamilton Books

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• Yes, as Rhett had prophesied, marriage could be a lot of fun. Not only was it fun but she was learning many things. That was odd in itself, because Scarlett had thought life could teach her no more. Now she felt like a child, every day on the brink of a new discovery.

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  Fun, Children, Discovery

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.552, Hamilton Books

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• Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

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  Duplicity, Brain, Usual

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.396, Hamilton Books

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• Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

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  Book, Europe, Boring

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.15, Hamilton Books

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