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• It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Knowledge, Wonder, Worst

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.286, Hamilton Books

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• Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Strong, Enough, Burden

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.979, 谷月社

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• All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

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  Hurt, Breathing Space, Wanted

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.999, 谷月社

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• And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

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  Apology, Impossible, Harder

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1397, Simon and Schuster

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• The happiest days are when babies come.

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  Baby

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• He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.

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  Play, Serious, Bitter

  Margaret Mitchell (2007). “Gone with the Wind”, p.1191, Simon and Schuster

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• It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.

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  Men, Land, Vanity

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.99, Hamilton Books

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• You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler

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  Sorry, Wind, Jail

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• The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

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  Business, People, Forgiving

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.816, 谷月社

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• Why will people persist in reading strange meanings into the simplest of story? Is it not enough that a writer can entertain for a few hours with narrative without being suspected of 'significances' or symbolism or 'social trends'?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Reading, Symbolism, People

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• men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them

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  Believe, Conceited, Men

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

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• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

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  War, Fighting, Reality

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

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• I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Tomorrow

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• No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.

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  Love You, Heart, Cat

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.544, 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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• I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.

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  Romantic, Heart, Cutting

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.257, 谷月社

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• I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

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  Sweet, Goes On, Faces

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.405, Hamilton Books

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• The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

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  Race, Emphasis, Wrong Things

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

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  Civilization, People, Brain

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

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• She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.

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  Heart

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.655, Hamilton Books

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• There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

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  War, Men

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.166, Hamilton Books

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• you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.' 'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.

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  Pet, Devil, Care

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.499, Hamilton Books

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• You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.

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  Love You, Brutal, Whips

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.671, Hamilton Books

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• My age is my own private business and I intend to keep it so - if I can. I am not so old that I am ashamed of my age and I am not so young that I couldn't have written my book and that is all the public needs to know about my age.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Book, Age, Needs

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

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• The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

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  Past, Surrender, Never Surrender

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.556, Hamilton Books

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