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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
Loved
Made
Something

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Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
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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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Her lips on his could tell him better than all her stumbling words.
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Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.
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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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They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.
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So it was true! A pain slashed at her heart as savagely as a wild animal's fangs.
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Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
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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 happiest days are when babies come.
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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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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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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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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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If he's forgotten me, I'll make him remember me. I'll make him want me again.
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Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.
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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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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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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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But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado,sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life,and dropping her down in the midst of this still,haunted desolation.
Margaret Mitchell