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

Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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Journalist
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Prosaist
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Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
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You are a child if you thought I didn’t know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I’ve been—” He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.
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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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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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Scarlett, always save something to fear—even as you save something to love.
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You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
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With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
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Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
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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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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
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That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
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I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
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She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.
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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
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I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
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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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How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!
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