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Hardships make or break people.
Margaret Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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. . . She knew only that if she did or said thus-and-so, men would unerringly respond with the complimentary thus-and-so. It was like a mathematical formula and no more difficult, for mathematics was the one subject that had come easy to Scarlett in her schooldays.
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How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!
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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.
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I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.
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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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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.
Margaret Mitchell
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Margaret Mitchell
[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
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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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Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.
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That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
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Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
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Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
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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.
Margaret Mitchell
If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
Margaret Mitchell
And if we folks have a motto, it's this: 'Don't holler - smile and bide your time.' We've survived a passel of things that way, smiling and biding our time, and we've gotten to be experts at surviving.
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Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.
Margaret Mitchell
In a weak moment, I have written a book.
Margaret Mitchell
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.
Margaret Mitchell
