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    Margaret Mitchell
    “I'd cut up my heart for you to wear if you wanted it.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #2
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #3
    Margaret Mitchell
    “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.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #4
    Margaret Mitchell
    “My dear, I don't give a damn.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #5
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Hardships make or break people.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #6
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!"

    An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #7
    Margaret Mitchell
    “It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #8
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #9
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Dear Scarlett! You aren't helpless. Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless. God help the Yankees if they should get you." -Rhett Butler”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #10
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #11
    Margaret Mitchell
    “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.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #12
    Margaret Mitchell
    “You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #13
    Margaret Mitchell
    “And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #14
    Margaret Mitchell
    “I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #15
    Margaret Mitchell
    “If I said I was madly in love with you you'd know I was lying.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #16
    Margaret Mitchell
    “That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #17
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #18
    Margaret Mitchell
    “No, my dear, I'm not in love with you, no more than you are with me, and if I were, you would be the last person I'd ever tell. God help the man who ever really loves you. You'd break his heart, my darling, cruel, destructive little cat who is so careless and confident she doesn't even trouble to sheathe her claws.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #19
    Margaret Mitchell
    “I've always had a weakness for lost causes once they're really lost.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #20
    Margaret Mitchell
    “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.”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #21
    Margaret Mitchell
    “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, Gone with the Wind

  • #22
    Margaret Mitchell
    “Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #23
    Margaret Mitchell
    “I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands. ”
    Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

  • #24
    Ray Bradbury
    “There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #25
    Ray Bradbury
    “If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.”
    Ray Bradbury

  • #26
    Ray Bradbury
    “Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
    Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine

  • #27
    Ray Bradbury
    “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #28
    Ray Bradbury
    “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #29
    Ray Bradbury
    “Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.”
    Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

  • #30
    Italo Calvino
    “A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
    Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature



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