“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, 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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