Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 7

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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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• 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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• She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Fate, Joy

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.611, Hamilton Books

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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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• 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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• 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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• Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Heart, Gone, Afternoon

  Margaret Mitchell (1975). “Gone With the Wind”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

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  Too Much, Results, Should

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

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• Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Missing, Gentleman, Said

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.77, Hamilton Books

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• Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Baby, Stupid, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.262, Hamilton Books

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• Somewhere, on the long road that wound through those four years, the girl with her sachet & dancing slippers had slipped away & there was left a woman with sharp green eyes, who counted pennies & turned her hands to many menial tasks, a woman to whom nothing was left from the wreckage except the indestructible red earth on which she stood.

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  Girl, Eye, Hands

  Margaret Mitchell, Pat Conroy (2008). “Gone with the Wind”, p.680, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Real, War, Shadow

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Important, Desire, Fancy

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1419, Simon and Schuster

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• The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Eye, Green

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

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• How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Liars, Lying, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.536, Hamilton Books

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