“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.”

— Margaret Mitchell, book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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American author and journalist 1900–1949

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