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Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American novelist, and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. November 1900 – 16. August 1949  •  Other names Maria Mitchell
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Margaret Mitchell Quotes

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

Margaret Mitchell

Source: Gone With the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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 book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Variant: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Source: Gone with the Wind

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell

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

Margaret Mitchell

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“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.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind