Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind (1936)

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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.

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

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I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can't…My dear, I don't give a damn.

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

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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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These three ladies disliked and distrusted one another as heartily as the First Triumvirate of Rome, and their close alliance was probably for the same reason.

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There ain't nothing from the outside that can lick any of us.

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

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The Yankees aren't fiends. They haven't horns and hoofs, as you seem to think. They are pretty much like Southerners — except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.

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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was, or what freedom really is.
Scarlett O'Hara speaking

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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.

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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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Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came back into her body. Now, as she looked at him, she felt the same way she had felt then, breathless, stunned, nauseated.

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I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

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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.

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Never pass up new experiences, Scarlett. They enrich the mind.

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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.

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

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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.

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Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation.

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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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