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d2a8aa5
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It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it's time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
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humor
inspirational
gone-with-the-wind
encouragement
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Karen Moning |
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fcc8d5d
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Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with a singing in her heart that she would never fear them again. No matter what mists might curl around her in the future, she knew her refuge. She started briskly up the street toward home and the blocks seemed very long. Far, far too long. She caught up her skirts to her knees and began to run lightly. But this time she was not running from fear. She was running because Rhett's arms were at the end of the street.
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romance
gone-with-the-wind-quotes
gone-with-the-wind
romance-novels
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Margaret Mitchell |
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ef03c69
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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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gone-with-the-wind
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Margaret Mitchell |
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4c26ba7
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They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
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gone-with-the-wind
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Margaret Mitchell |
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dd85300
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I told you once before that there were two times for making big money, one in the up-building of a country and the other in its destruction. Slow money on the up-building, fast money in the crack-up. Remember my words. Perhaps they may be of use to you some day. (Rhett Butler)
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money
war
gone-with-the-wind
margaret-mitchell
rhett-butler
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Margaret Mitchell |
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a19fff0
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To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.
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gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
mother
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Margaret Mitchell |
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bd5c73e
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Suddenly she hated them all because they were different from her, because they carried their losses with an air that she could never attain, would never wish to attain. She hated them, these smiling, light-footed strangers, these proud fools who took pride in something they had lost, seeming to be proud that they had lost it.
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loss
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |
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bd5fb44
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War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.
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war
marriage
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
feeling
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Margaret Mitchell |
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8a068eb
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"But how nice it would be to know that some good Yankee woman - And there must be SOME good Yankee women. I don't care what people say, they can't all be bad! How nice it would be to know that they pulled weeds off our men's graves and brought flowers to them, even if they were enemies. If Charlie were dead in the North it would comfort me to know that someone - And I don't care what you ladies think of me," her voice broke again, "I will withdraw from both clubs and I'll -- I'll pull up every weed off every Yankee's grave I can find and I'll plant flowers, too -- and -- I just dare anyone to stop me!"
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humanity
goodness
gone-with-the-wind
graves
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Margaret Mitchell |
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e633562
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Why, why, her mind stuttered, I believe women could manage everything in the world without men's help--except having babies, and God knows, no woman in her right mind would have babies if she could help it.
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women
gone-with-the-wind
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Margaret Mitchell |
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5de9fa9
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Ashley watched her go and saw her square her small shoulders as she went. And that gesture went to his heart, more than any words she had spoken.
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faith
gone-with-the-wind
scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |
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3cc0958
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I've felt that I was trying to row a heavily loaded boat in a storm. I've had so much trouble just trying to keep afloat that I couldn't be bothered about things that didn't matter, things I could part with easily and not miss, like good manners and--well, things like that. I've been too afraid my boat would be swamped and so I've dumped overboard the things that seemed least important.
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gone-with-the-wind
hardship
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Margaret Mitchell |
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1b08141
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It was unreal, grotesquely unreal, that morning skies which dawned so tenderly blue could be profaned with cannon smoke that hung over the town like low thunder clouds, that warm noontides filled with the piercing sweetness of massed honeysuckle and climbing roses could be so fearful, as shells screamed into the streets, bursting like the crack of doom, throwing iron splinters hundreds of yards, blowing people and animals to bits.
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war
gone-with-the-wind
profanity
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Margaret Mitchell |
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aee8f01
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Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart.
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love-quotes
funny
gone-with-the-wind
margaret-mitchell
rhett-butler
poetic
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Margaret Mitchell |