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It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara.
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.
I can't think about that right now. If I do, I'll go crazy. I'll think about that tomorrow.
She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.
I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace.
I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.
Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
what will the South be like without all our fine boys? What would the South have been if they had lived?
Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known you to have a handkerchief.
She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.
Babies, babies, babies. Why did God make so many babies? But no, God didn't make them. Stupid people made them.
Madam, you flatter yourself. I do not want to marry you or anyone else. I am not a marrying man. - Rhett Butler
Everybody's mainspring is different. And I want to say this - folks whose mainsprings are busted are better dead.
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were.
Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That’s the beginning of wisdom.
Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.
People must do what they must do. We all don't think alike or act alike and it's wrong to-to judge others by ourselves.
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.
Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.
She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)
Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy
The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor
You're like the thief who isn't the least bit sorry he stole, but is terribly, terribly sorry he's going to jail. - Rhett Butler
But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.
He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.
I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.
Supposed I don't want to redeem myself? Why should I fight to uphold the system that cast me out? I shall take pleasure in seeing it smashed.
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.
She could not ignore life. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile
I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day.
Somehow the bright beauty had gone from April afternoon and from her heart as well and the sad sweetness of remembering was as bitter as gall.
You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.
All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?
Did you ever hear the Oriental proverb, "The dogs bark but the caravan passes on"? Let them bark, Scarlett. I fear nothing will stop your caravan.
Perhaps - I want the old days back again and they'll never come back, and I am haunted by the memory of them and of the world falling about my ears.
A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!” he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler