Margaret Mitchell Quotes - Page 4

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• It doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.” “Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!” “And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Girl, Running, Country

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.22, Hamilton Books

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• [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Yankees, Manners, Accents

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.214, Hamilton Books

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye, Quiet Moments, Lost Youth

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Love You, Knows, Misfortunes

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• It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?

  Margaret Mitchell

  Feet, Phrases, Ardor

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• I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Weakness, Causes, Lost

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

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• To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.

  Margaret Mitchell

  House, Miracle, Breaths

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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• But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Memories, Matter, Behinds

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.600, Hamilton Books

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• What’s 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 live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sad Love, Believe, Bad Relationship

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.675, Hamilton Books

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• Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost, Understood, Ashley

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• They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Sweet, Faces, Strange

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.109, Hamilton Books

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• Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Men, Littles

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.67, Hamilton Books

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• All you have done is to be different from other women and you have made a little success of it. This is unforgivable sin in any society. The mere fact that you have succeed to run the mill is an insult to everyman who hasn't succeed.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Unforgivable Sin, Different

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• Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Loneliness, Choices, Want

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

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• Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Determined, Rhett Butler

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.249, Hamilton Books

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• I'm not asking you to forgive me. I'll never understand or forgive myself. And if a bullet gets me, so help me, I'll laugh at myself for being an idiot. There's one thing I do know... and that is that I love you, Scarlett. In spite of you and me and the whole silly world going to pieces around us, I love you. Because we're alike. Bad lots, both of us. Selfish and shrewd. But able to look things in the eyes as we call them by their right names.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Selfish, Silly, Love You

  "Fictional character: Rhett". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• Scarlett's mind went back through the years to the still hot noon at Tara when grey smoke curled above a blue-clad body and Melanie stood at the top of the stairs with Charles' sabre in her hand. Scarlett remembered that she had thought at the time: 'How silly! Melly couldn't even heft that sword!' But now she knew that had the necessity arisen, Melanie would have charged down those stairs and killed the Yankee - or been killed herself.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Silly, Yankees, Blue

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• Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Running, Strong, Block

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.986, 谷月社

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• Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

  Margaret Mitchell

  Beautiful, Heart, Mean

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

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• I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Needs, Care, Need You

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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.'

  Margaret Mitchell

  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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• She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile

  Margaret Mitchell

  Trying, Gloss, Brutal

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.391, Hamilton Books

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• It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Thinking, These Days, Pleasant

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.212, Hamilton Books

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• [T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Adjustment, Merciful

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.209, Hamilton Books

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• They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Twilight, Talking, Two

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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