Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 6

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Faces, Worst

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Guitar, Play

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

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Europe, Georgia, Shows

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

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pain, Heart, Animal

  "Gone With The Wind: American Literature".

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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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• 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Dream, Eye, Mad

  "Gone with the Wind".

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Fun, Children, Discovery

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

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Want, Remember, Forgotten

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Duplicity, Brain, Usual

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

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Hunger, Stealing

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

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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Wind, Butlers, Crisis

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.673, 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

  Margaret Mitchell

  Baby, Missing, Knows

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Pet, Spurs, Riding

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

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• I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Husband, Book, Home

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

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• Crackers are short on sparkle.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sparkle, Crackers

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

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• The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Doctors, Soldier

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Make up your mind to this. If you are different, you are isolated, not only from people of your own age but from those of your parents' generation and from your children's generation too. They'll never understand you and they'll be shocked no matter what you do. But your grandparents would probably be proud of you and say: 'Theres a chip off the old block,' and your grandchildren will sigh enviously and say: 'What an old rip Grandma must have been!' and they'll try to be like you.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Children, Block, Rip

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

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Horse, Children, Thinking

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

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• Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Brave, Trying, Comfort

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.162, 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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• 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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Baby, Giving

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

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Believe, Needs, World

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

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• A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell

  Baby, Ugly, Faces

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

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• Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?' If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn’t sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Hero, Mean

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.217, 谷月社

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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.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Night, Lions, Eternity

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

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