Margaret Mitchell Quotes

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• Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Hope, Two, Problem

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• Brilliance is one part talent, two parts wisdom and three parts passion.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Passion, Two, Three

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• Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

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  Fun, Mistake, Too Much

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• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.

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  Inspirational, Life, Giving

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

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• If Gone With the Wind has a theme it is that of survival. What makes some people come through catastrophes and others, apparently just as able, strong, and brave, go under? It happens in every upheaval. Some people survive; others don't. What qualities are in those who fight their way through triumphantly that are lacking in those that go under? I only know that survivors used to call that quality 'gumption.' So I wrote about people who had gumption and people who didn't.

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  Strong, Fighting, Wind

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• Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost Love, Reputation, Realizing

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.

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• After all, tomorrow is another day.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Movie, Hope

  Gone with theWind pt. 5, ch. 63 (1936) See Proverbs 302

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• The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain

  Margaret Mitchell

  Women, Brain, Usual

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• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Life, Positive, Hope

  Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books

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• The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor

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  Liars, Honor, Coward

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.142, Hamilton Books

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• Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, Think For Yourself

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.122, Hamilton Books

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• Hardships make or break people.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Being Strong, Perseverance, Courage

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

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• People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.

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  Thinking, People, Judging

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• I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is 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 lived.

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  Love, Positive, Break Up

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1445, Simon and Schuster

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• In a weak moment, I have written a book.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Moments, Weak

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• Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

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  Hate, Anger, Heart

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.80, Hamilton Books

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• I don't see how it could possibly be made into a movie unless the entire book was scrapped and Shirley Temple cast as 'Bonnie,' Mae West as 'Belle,' and Stepin Fetchit as 'Uncle Peter.'

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  Uncles, Book, West

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

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• Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Death, Time

  Gone with theWind pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936) See Benjamin Franklin 41; Proverbs 63

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• With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Courage, Wind, Gone

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.

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• All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

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  War, Fighting, People

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Writing, Ease

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• That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Unforgivable Sin, Different, Literature

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

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

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  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.

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  World, Too Much, Remember

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

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• Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Gone Love, Wind, Land

  Gone with theWind pt. 1, ch. 2 (1936)

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