Margaret Mitchell Quotes

1900 - 1949

US    writer.    She    worked    as    a    journalist    with    the   Atlanta Constitution.   Her   only   novel,   Gone   with   the  Wind   (written 1926^36,   published  1936,   Pulitzer   Prize),   rapidly   became   a bestseller and was made into a celebrated film in1939.

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Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

1936   Ashley Wilkes. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.31.

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I'mtired ofeverlastingly being unnatural and neverdoing anything Iwantto do?and I'mtired of pretending Idon't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Scarlett O'Hara. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.5.

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Land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts. It will come to you, this love of the land.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1939  Gone  with  the Wind.

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Young misses whut eats heavy mos'gener'ly doan never ketch husbands.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Mammy. Gone with the Wind, ch.5.

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Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Rhett Butler. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.9.

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I'm going to live through this, and when it's over, I'm nevergoing tobe hungryagain.No, noranyof my folks.If I have to steal or killas God is my witness, I'm never going to be hungry again.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Scarlett O'Hara. Gone with the Wind, ch.25.

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Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Rhett Butler. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.34.

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Death and taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them!

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Scarlett O'Hara. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.38.

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What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see broken places as long as I lived? I wish I could care what you do or where you go, but I can't. My dear, I don't give a damn.

Margaret Mitchell
— Rhett Butler's parting speech to Scarlett O'Hara. Gone with the Wind, chapter 63 (1936); the more famous version of the final line from the film script by Sidney Howard (1939, spoken by Clark Gable) ran 'Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn'.

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   Tomorrow, I'll think of some other way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.

Margaret Mitchell
— 1936  Scarlett O'Hara's final words. Gone  with  the Wind, ch.63.

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Death and taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them!

Margaret Mitchell
— Scarlett O’Hara, in Gone With the Wind, vol. 2, pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936).

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