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Margaret Mitchell was an American novelist best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Gone with the Wind." Her work became a cultural phenomenon and was later adapted into an iconic film. She continues to be recognized as one of the most influential writers in American literature. Here are 106 of her quotes:

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. (Margaret Mitchell)

The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain.

Margaret Mitchell

The liar was the hottest to defend his veracity, the coward his courage, the ill-bred his gentlemanliness, and the cad his honor.

Margaret Mitchell

Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. That's the beginning of wisdom.

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In a weak moment, I have written a book.

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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.

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Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.

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Hardships make or break people.

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That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!

Margaret Mitchell

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

The south produced statesmen and soldiers, planters and doctors and lawyers and poets, but certainly no engineers and mechanics. Let Yankees adopt such low callings. (Margaret Mitchell)

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Margaret Mitchell

Never pass up new experiences [Scarlett], They enrich the mind." - Rhett Butler.

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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.

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Now she had a fumbling knowledge that, had she ever understood Ashley, she would never have loved him; had she ever understood Rhett, she would never have lost him.

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It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

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Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.

Margaret Mitchell

I wonder if anyone but me realizes what goes on in that head back of your deceptively sweet face.

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How wonderful to know someone who was bad and dishonorable and a cheat and a liar, when all the world was filled with people who would not lie to save their souls and who would rather starve than do a dishonorable deed!

Margaret Mitchell

How closely women clutch the very chains that bind them!

Margaret Mitchell

Scarlett, always save something to fear-even as you save something to love. (Margaret Mitchell)

After all, tomorrow is another day!

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.

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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.

Margaret Mitchell

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

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Margaret Mitchell

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Occupation: American Author
Born: November 8, 1900
Died: August 16, 1949
Quotes count: 106
Wikipedia: Margaret Mitchell

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