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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
Writer
Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
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What most people don't seem to realize is that there is just as much money to be made out of the wreckage of a civilization as from the upbuilding of one.
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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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You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
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Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
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There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.
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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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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 tired of saying How wonderful you are! to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
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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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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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Yes, I want money more than anything else in the world.” “Then you’ve made the only choice. But there’s a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It’s loneliness.
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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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She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
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[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
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I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
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Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.
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Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
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