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141 " All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try. "
― Margaret Mitchell , Gone with the Wind
142 " She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern. "
143 " Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. "
144 " It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin. "
145 " It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence. "
146 " It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor? "
147 " [Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. "
148 " She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality. "
149 " They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it. "
150 " Come, Scarlett, you are no child, no schoolgirl to put me off with foolish excuses about decency and so forth. Say you'll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won't go. I'll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you'll have to marry me to save your reputation. "
151 " It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy. "
152 " Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything. "
153 " She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it. "
154 " Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain. "
155 " Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way "
156 " 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. "
157 " We bow to the inevitable. We’re not wheat, we’re buckwheat! When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it’s dry and can’t bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat’s got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before. We aren’t a stiff-necked tribe. We’re mighty limber when a hard wind’s blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time. And we play along with lesser folks and we take what we can get from them. And when we’re strong enough, we kick the folks whose necks we’ve climbed over. That, my child, is the secret of the survival. "
158 " When I first met you, I thought: There is a girl in a million. She isn't like these other silly little fools who believe everything their mammas tell them and act on it, no matter how they feel. And conceal all their feelings and desires and little heartbreaks behind a lot of sweet words. I thought: Miss O'Hara is a girl of rare spirit. She knows what she wants and she doesn't mind speaking her mind–or throwing vases. "
159 " The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own. "
160 " I won't need you to rescue meM. I can take care of myself, thank you. - Scarlett O'Hara. "