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Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen. Only a little true tenderness had been mixed into her love. Mostly it had been compounded out of vanity and complacent confidence in her own charms. Now she had lost and, greater than her sense of loss, was the fear that she had made a public spectacle of herself.
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It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to fish up the honor and virtue and kindness you've thrown overboard, you'll find they have suffered a sea change and not, I fear, into something rich and strange.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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86a5e94
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war was not glory but dirt and misery.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Here, take my handkerchief. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Well--you know how the Wilkes are. They are kind of queer about music and books and scenery. Mother says it's because their grandfather came from Virginia. She says Virginians set quite a store by such things.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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and the most insane gossip tortured the town
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Margaret Mitchell |
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I believe woman could manage everything in the world without men's help-except birthing babies...
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Oh, he was detestable! She swung round on her heel and marched into the house. She grabbed hold of the door to shut it with a bang, but the hook which held it open was too heavy for her. She struggled with it, panting. "May I help you?" he asked. Feeling that she would burst a blood vessel if she stayed another minute, she stormed up the stairs. And as she reached the upper floor, she heard him obligingly slam the door for her."
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slam
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Better to be tormented with memories of Ashley than Charleston accents.
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It was a man's world, and she accepted it as such. The man owned the property, and the woman managed it. The man took the credit for the management, and the woman praised his cleverness. The man roared like a bull when a splinter was in his finger, and the woman muffled the moans of childbirth, lest she disturb him. Men were rough of speech and often drunk. Women ignored the lapses of speech and put the drunkards to bed without bitter words..
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Margaret Mitchell |
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She had the temper of a Tartar and the rages of a wild cat and, at such times, she did not seem to care what she said or how much it hurt.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
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love
scarlett-o-hara
rhett-butler
talking
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Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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I've got something that most pretty ladies haven't got--and that's a mind that's made up.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.
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scarlett-o-hara
hardship
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It was his goatee that annoyed her the most. Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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The husband is always the last to find out.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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I want you more than I have ever wanted any woman--and I've waited longer for you than I've ever waited for any woman.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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She knew she had changed too, but not as they had changed, and it puzzled her. She sat and watched them and she felt herself an alien among them, as alien and lonely as if she had come from another world, speaking a language they did not understand and she not understanding theirs.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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2ecb32e
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What a white livered, cowardly little bitch you are.
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scarlett
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Always providing you have enough courage--or money--you can do without a reputation.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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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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Da, s'zhaliavam te, zashchoto si istinsko dete, Skarlet. Dete, koeto plache, zashchoto ne mozhe da pipne lunata. A kakvo bi pravilo to s neia, ako nai-posle ia dostigne?"
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Now she could look back down the long years and see herself in green flowered dimity, standing in the sunshine at Tara, thrilled by the young horseman with his blond hair shining like a silver helmet. She could see so clearly now that he was only a childish fancy, no more important really than her spoiled desire for the aquamarine earbobs she had coaxed out of Gerald. For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything..
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Drink and dissipation had done their work on the coin-clean profile and now it was no longer the head of a young pagan prince on new-minted gold but a decadent, tired Caesar on copper debased by long usage.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta. When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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He could no more resist pricking the conceits, the hypocrisies and the flamboyant patriotism of those about him than a small boy can resist putting a pin into a balloon. He neatly deflated the pompous and exposed the ignorant and the bigoted, and he did it in such subtle ways, drawing his victims out by his seemingly courteous interest, that they never were quite certain what had happened until they stood exposed as windy, high flown and sl..
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yk 'n tkhlT byn wrq ll`b wshrb lwysk~ m lm tkn mfTwman `l~ lwysk~ l'yrlnd~ lmqTr@. (jyrld)
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Margaret Mitchell |
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You're a pretty person, Scarlett," he said. "Especially when you are meditating devilment."
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Margaret 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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Margaret Mitchell |
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To die for ones country, is to live forever.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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What's happened? A very remarkable thing, Scarlett. I've been thinking. I don't believe I really thought from the time of the surrender until you went away from here. I was in a state of suspended animation and it was enough that I had something to eat and a bed to lie on. But when you went to Atlanta, shouldering a man's burden, I saw myself as much less than a man--much less, indeed, than a woman. Such thoughts aren't pleasant to live wit..
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hardship
manhood
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I don't want any money for it," he said. "It's a gift." Scarlett's mouth dropped open. The line was so closely, so carefully drawn where gifts from men were concerned. "Candy and flowers, dear," Ellen had said time and again, "and perhaps a book of poetry or an album or a small bottle of Florida water are the only things a lady may accept from a gentleman. Never, never any expensive gift, even from your fiance. And never any gift of jewelry..
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It was not the lifting up of her heart to God that brought this balm, for religion went no more than lip deep with her. It was the sight of her mother's serene face upturned to the throne of God and His saints and angels, praying for blessings on those whom she loved. When Ellen intervened with Heaven, Scarlett felt certain that Heaven heard. Ellen
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I always intended having you, Scarlett, since that first day I saw you at Twelve Oaks when you threw that vase and swore and proved that you weren't a lady. I
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Margaret Mitchell |
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You have all the passion for life I lack.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Vaikk' oot kallis, armahin, mulle, kunnia kuitenkin kalliimpi on.' Se on varsin sattuvasti sanottu, eiko olekin? Ainakin paremmin kuin mita pystyisin itse keksimaan talla hetkella. Silla mina rakastan sinua, Scarlett, huolimatta siita, mita sanoin sinulle sina iltana vain kuukausi sitten porraspylvaikossa istuessamme." Rhettin venyttava aani oli hyvaileva, ja hanen katensa, lampimat, voimakkaat kadet, liukuivat ylos pitkin Scarlettin paljai..
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Nesgodite izgrazhdat lichnostta ili ia prechupvat.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Oh, what a mess life was! Why had she been such an idiot as to marry Charles of all people and have her life end at sixteen?
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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You've been brave so long Scarlett. You just gotta go on being brave.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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Mr. Lincoln, the merciful and just, who cries large tears over Mrs. Bixby's five boys, hasn't any tears to shed about the thousands of Yankees dying at Andersonville," said Rhett, his mouth twisting. "He doesn't care if they all die. The order is out. No exchanges."
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Margaret Mitchell |
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It was one thing to know that Ashley was engaged but it was another to hear people talk about it so casually.
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Margaret Mitchell |
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born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.
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Margaret Mitchell |