“I wish I could care what you do or where you go but I can’t…My dear, I don’t give a damn. “A frost lay over all her emotions and she thought that she would never feel anything warmly again.”ġ4. “he merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.”ġ3. She had to live it and it was too brutal, too hostile, for her even to try to gloss over its harshness with a smile.”ġ2. The book, first published in 1936, is a romance set during the American Civil War, in which the slave-owning South fought Abraham Lincoln’s abolitionists in the North. “Now you are beginning to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you.

“Vanity was stronger than love at sixteen and there was no room in her hot heart now for anything but hate.”ġ0. It is a novel that combines the events of the 19th century American Civil War.

“That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Gone with the Wind was written by Margaret Mitchell and was published in 1936. We take what we get and are thankful it’s no worse than it is.”Ĩ. “Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect. “Death, taxes and childbirth! There’s never any convenient time for any of them.”ħ. “Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.”Ħ. “It was better to know the worst than to wonder.”ĥ. “Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.”Ĥ.

“The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.”ģ. Gone with the Wind is a sweeping romantic story about the American Civil War from the point of view of the Confederacy. “A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well as or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who had been reared in the tradition that men were omniscient and women none too bright.”Ģ. Gone with the Wind, novel by Margaret Mitchell, published in 1936.

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