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So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
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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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
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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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Everywhere, women gathered in knots, huddled in groups on front porches, on sidewalks, even in the middle of the streets, telling each other that no news is good news, trying to comfort each other, trying to present a brave appearance.
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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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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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The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.
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It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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The South produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors, lawyers and poets, but certainly not engineers or mechanics. Let the Yankees adopt such low callings.
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If I said I was madly in love with you, I'd be lying and what's more, you'd know it.
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I have a passionate desire for personal privacy. I want to stand before the world, for good or bad, on the book I wrote, not on what I say in letters to friends, not on my husband and my home life, the way I dress, my likes and dislikes, et cetera. My book belongs to anyone who has the price, but nothing of me belongs to the public.
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