Margaret Mitchell Quotes About Reality

• No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

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  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

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• It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

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  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.338, Hamilton Books

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• She is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality." (Ashley said about Melanie)

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• I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.

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  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.340, Hamilton Books

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