Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 6

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• Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Longing

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.326, Hamilton Books

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• Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.

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  Wind, Butlers, Crisis

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.673, 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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• I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

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  Pet, Spurs, Riding

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.828, 谷月社

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• Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.

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  Rhett Butler

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

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• Crackers are short on sparkle.

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  Sparkle, Crackers

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

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• It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

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  Believe, Needs, World

  Margaret Mitchell (1967). “Gone With The Wind”

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• Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler

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  Selfish, Yankees, Helping

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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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• She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.

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  Air, World, Wrecks

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.582, 谷月社

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• I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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  Husband, Wind, Waiting

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

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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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• 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.

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  Spring, Home, Humility

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

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  Thinking, Flames, Jewels

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

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

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  Thinking, I Can

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

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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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• What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

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  Europe, Georgia, Shows

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.

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  Night, Lions, Eternity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.604, Hamilton Books

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• Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy

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  Baby, Missing, Knows

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• If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.

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  Want, Remember, Forgotten

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

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• So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.

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  Pain, Heart, Animal

  "Gone With The Wind: American Literature".

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• Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: 'As God is my witness, and God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill - as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

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  Yankees, Hunger, Stealing

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.593, Simon and Schuster

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• Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

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  Dream, Eye, Mad

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

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  Horse, Children, Thinking

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.440, Hamilton Books

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• So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.” “I hope not. It’s a girl.

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  Girl, Baby, Giving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.494, Hamilton Books

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