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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.
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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
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I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.
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What will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
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I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
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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.
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I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.
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He had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster.
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Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
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It was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.
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The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself—and keep it there.
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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
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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!
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Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.
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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.
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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.
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I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
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Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
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She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)
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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.
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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
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Always providing you have enough courage—or money—you can do without a reputation.
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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.
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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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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Born:
November 8, 1900
Died:
August 16, 1949
(aged 48)
Bio:
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist.
Known for:
Gone with the Wind (1936)
Lost Laysen
Before Scarlett
Working with French
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