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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 71addba | If for no other reason she hated the Yankees because they kept her from having real coffee with sugar and thick cream in it. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| e40381f | Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday. | slavery-in-the-united-states | Margaret Mitchell | |
| ce453ca | Who you pretends you is, you comes to be. The bigger what bows to the Master on the street, who acts the fool, who forgets who he am, that man a slave. He shuts his bible, he deserves to be a slave | Donald McCaig | ||
| d1b61ce | didnt men ever think about anything that really mattered? | Mitchell Margaret | ||
| 9333023 | The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel? | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| b403300 | Influence is everything, and guilt or innocence merely an academic question | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 1c69d85 | If only he hadn't gone out with the Klan! | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 6a6a6f2 | The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more--and by remembering too much. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 0eaa4d3 | He thought as he stared at Will in the shadowy hall that he had never known such gallantry as the gallantry of Scarlett O'Hara going forth to conquer the world in her mother's velvet curtains and the tail feathers of a rooster. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 775cd5a | Melly is the only woman friend I ever had," she thought forlornly, "the only woman except Mother who really loved me. She's like Mother, too. Everyone who knew her has clung to her skirts." | grief loss love | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1057a44 | Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| de32e26 | She only did--did what she felt she had to do. And our men did what they felt they had to do. People must do what they must do. We don't all think alike or act alike and it's wrong to--to judge others by ourselves. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 1db6696 | Oh, I don't care! I don't care what they say!" she whispered, as a sweet madness swept over her." | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 885d9c7 | Yes, life has a glitter now-of a sort. That's what's wrong with it. The old days had no glitter but they had a charm, a beauty, a slow-paced glamour. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| aee8f01 | Oh, Scarlett, you are so young you wring my heart. | funny gone-with-the-wind love-quotes margaret-mitchell poetic rhett-butler | Margaret Mitchell | |
| bcaca8c | With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 8f2ec8d | Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift. She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that defeat is an impossibility and a pretty dress and a clear complexion are weapons to vanquish fate. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| de31af7 | It's hard to be strict with a man who loses money so pleasantly. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 4ca8fbc | He thinks the war is all wrong but he's willing to fight and die anyway, and that takes lots more courage than fighting for something you think is right. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 193de9f | Men should either be clean shaven, mustached or wear full beards. "That little wisp looks like it was just the best he could do," she thought," | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 67c09d1 | All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started ward didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? But, 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. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 46fcb91 | If God had seen fit to punish them so, then God could very well do without prayers. Religion had always been a bargaining process with Scarlett. She promised God good behavior in exchange for favors. God had broken the bargain time and again, to her way of thinking, and she felt she owned Him nothing now. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| a20de4a | It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| a6fe438 | Sir," she said, "you are no gentleman!" | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| bfae7da | Let's don't be too hot headed and let's don't have any war. Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 4f468d0 | So you could not love me? That is as I hoped. For while I like you immensely, I do not love you and it would be tragic indeed for you to suffer twice from unrequited love, wouldn't it, dear? | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| d640e6f | Vous avez simplement cherche a ne pas faire comme les autres femmes, et ma foi vous n'avez pas mal reussi. Comme je vous l'ai deja dit, la societe ne veut pas qu'on se singularise. C'est le seul peche qu'elle ne pardonne pas. Maudit soit celui qui est different des autres. Et puis, Scarlett, le seul fait que votre scierie marche bien est une injure a tout homme dont les affaires periclitent. Rappelez-vous qu'une femme bien elevee doit reste.. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| 45f677c | As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm never going to be hungry again. No, nor any of my folks. If I have to steal or kill--as God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again. | Margaret Mitchell | ||
| dcaaa1d | All the different ways of talking English I throw together like a salad and dine greedily in my mongrel tongue. | Alice Randall | ||
| da0ac55 | True love is a preview of heaven, and you do what you got to, to get it. | Alice Randall | ||
| 708c4c7 | joined the singing too, and when it was done and the applause rolled out once more, he was crying a bit himself. Rita was gone. Alice Underwood was gone. New York was gone. America was gone. Even if they could defeat Randall Flagg, whatever they might make would never be the same as that world of dark streets and bright dreams. | Stephen King | ||
| 25ca932 | We are taught to think ourselves ugly. Eyes are an assaulted sense. We are taught to behave by spankings and whippings. Touch is an assaulted sense. We are taught we should not smell, or we smell wrong. Smell is an assaulted sense. We listen to songs that call us 'hos and tell us how to give blow jobs. Hearing is an assaulted sense. Taste, not so much. | food hearing humor music sense smell songs taste | Alice Randall | |
| 3de932c | Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing. | Alice Randall | ||
| f9302d9 | this integration of Jefferson and Jesus is in many ways how members of the evangelical right can oppose abortion yet ignore the needs of disenfranchised members of society, how they can rage against sexual revolutions and offer little critique on economic greed or mass consumption, and how they can keep labor unions and government in check while not doing the same to Wall Street, insurance companies, and other big American businesses. Of co.. | Matthew Paul Turner | ||
| 3be11fe | The Boov are having seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy." I" | Adam Rex | ||
| 4babc58 | Apocalypse Hal was on the corner by the Laundromat. Hal was a neighborhood street preacher who worked at the fish and crab place next door. He wore a sandwich board sign of Bible verses and shouted angry things at passersby like "The end times are near" and "Seafood sampler $5.99." Now his sign just read "TOLD YOU SO," and he looked more anxious than angry." | Adam Rex | ||
| 663c3c4 | I'd drained our bank account, and there was less than I'd expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept at the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled "DEAD SPIDERS." As if I hadn't always known it was there. As if I wouldn't have wanted to look at dead spiders. I" | Adam Rex | ||
| fcebaee | I am rubber but you are blue. Whatevers you are saying bounces off of me and I do not remember the rest. | Adam Rex | ||
| f537dcf | I think there's a part of the brain, probably somewhere in the back, that won't give up believing in magic. It was the part that made cavemen believe that drawing elks on stone would make for a good hunt the next day. And it's still chugging along, making you think you have lucky socks, or that your kids' birthdays will win the lottery. | Adam Rex | ||
| 3d72405 | Why did you attack some girl's boots?" J.Lo looked incredulous. "She is still mad about this?" he huffed. "I TOLD her-I THOUGHT they were ANKLEwolves." "Okay, whatever. I-" "Why elsenow would a person wear fur with shortpants? It makes no sense!" | Adam Rex | ||
| 0193a3d | My partner and I are going to be run over by a rabbit driving a Citroen" just isn't the sort of thing that occurs to most people, no matter what kind of life they've led." | Adam Rex | ||
| 1a83412 | She had her shoes on now, and a diaper bag slung over one shoulder. In the opposite arm she cradled Andromeda, who was wearing both her Legolas Onesie and her Keebler booties. Which seemed wrong, you know--mixing two different kinds of elves like that. So now I knew Vicki was crazy. | Adam Rex | ||
| f0d7ecb | Control was the basis of all humor. Even at its most innocent, what was a joke or a clever comment if not a way to take control? To become King of the Moment. | Adam Rex | ||
| 9f278b2 | There's a little bit of magic in every box! | funny magic | Adam Rex |