Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
Margaret MitchellTake my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.
Mots clés gone-with-the-wind rhett-butler
She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.
Margaret MitchellMots clés ashley-wilkes
We bow to the inevitable. We’re not wheat, we’re buckwheat! When a storm comes along it flattens ripe wheat because it’s dry and can’t bend with the wind. But ripe buckwheat’s got sap in it and it bends. And when the wind has passed, it springs up almost as straight and strong as before. We aren’t a stiff-necked tribe. We’re mighty limber when a hard wind’s blowing, because we know it pays to be limber. When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time. And we play along with lesser folks and we take what we can get from them. And when we’re strong enough, we kick the folks whose necks we’ve climbed over. That, my child, is the secret of the survival.
Margaret Mitchell[T]he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
Margaret MitchellMots clés pain endurance problems life-and-living scarlett-o-hara
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.
Mots clés devil gone-with-the-wind
He looked on people, and he neither liked nor disliked them. He looked on life and was neither heartened nor saddened.
Margaret MitchellShe wasn't going to sit down and patiently wait for a miracle to help her. She was going to rush into life and wrest from it what she could.
Margaret MitchellShe was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself...
Margaret MitchellIt doesn’t matter who you marry, as long as he thinks like you and is a gentleman and a Southerner and prideful. For a woman, love comes after marriage.”
“Oh, Pa, that’s such an Old Country notion!”
“And a good notion it is! All this American business of running around marrying for love, like servants, like Yankees! The best marriages are when the parents choose for the girl. For how can a silly piece like yourself tell a good man from a scoundrel?
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