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.
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came … - Margaret Mitchell
Once, when she was six years old, she had fallen from a tree, flat on her stomach. She could still recall that sickening interval before breath came …
- Margaret Mitchell
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. - Margaret Mitchell
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. - Margaret Mitchell
I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything. - Margaret Mitchell
If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is. - Margaret Mitchell
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. We take what we get and are thankful it's no worse than it is.
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain - Margaret Mitchell
The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell
Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once. - Margaret Mitchell
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
After all, tomorrow is another day. - Margaret Mitchell
After all, tomorrow is another day.
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