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Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.

Margaret Mitchell

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Margaret Mitchell
Age: 48 †
Born: 1900
Born: November 9
Died: 1949
Died: August 16
Author
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Screenwriter
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Atlanta
Georgia
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
Folks
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Dead
Everybody
Better
Different
Mainspring
Busted
Emptiness

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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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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
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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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She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
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Sir,she said,you are no gentleman! An apt observation,he answered airily.And, you, Miss, are no lady.
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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.
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Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?
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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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