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“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”

“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”

“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.”

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain”

“Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy”

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

“She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.”

“Then you've made the only choice. But there's a penalty attached, as there is to most things you want. It's loneliness.”

“To Scarlett, there was something breath-taking about Ellen O'Hara, a miracle that lived in the house with her and awed her and charmed and soothed her.”

“Yes, life was very sweet and cosy with Scarlett - as long as she had her own way”

“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.”