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Book: Gone with the Wind
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
There will never again be men like them," said Carreen softly. "No one can take their places.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
Oh, you have the nastiest way of making virtues sound so stupid.""But virtues are stupid. Do you care if people talk?
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
Malign fate had broken their necks, perhaps, but never their hearts. They had not whined, they had fought. And when they died, they died spent but unquenched.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
Arrogance and callousness for the conquerors, bitter endurance and hatred for the conquered.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
You are pretty healthy, and maybe there isn't any hell after all.""Oh, but there is Rhett! You know there is!""I know there is but it's right here on earth. Not after we die. There's nothing after we die, Scarlett. You are having your hell now.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment, tell. Perhaps it was that there was nothing she would not do, and there were so many things these people would rather die than do. Perhaps it was that they were without hope but still smiling at life, bowing gracefully and passing it by. And this Scarlett could not do. She could not ignore life. 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. Of the sweetness and courage and unyielding pride of her friends, Scarlett saw nothing. She saw only a silly stiff-neckedness which observed facts but smiled and refused to look them in the face.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
Сильные люди не любят свидетелей своей слабости.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
She was seeing things with new eyes for, somewhere along the long road to Tara, she had left her girlhood behind her. She was no longer plastic clay, yielding imprint to each new experience. The clay had hardened, some time in this indeterminate day which hadlasted a thousand years. Tonight was the last time she would ever be ministered to as a child. She was a woman now and youth was gone.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
For all his exasperating qualities, she grew to look forward to his calls. There was something exciting about him that she could not analyze, something different from any man she had ever known. There was something breathtaking in the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in the impertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit to subdue him.
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
There was a look of consternation in them, of incredulity and something more - what was it? Yes, Gerald had looked that way the day his pet hunter had broken his leg and he had had to shoot him. Why did she have to think of that now? Such a silly thought. And why did Ashley look so oddly and say nothing?
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
Bad women and all they involved were mysterious and revolting matters to her. She knew that men patronized these women for purposes which no lady should mention--or, if she did mention them, in whispers and by indirection and euphemism. She had always thought that only common vulgar men visited such women. Before this moment, it had never occurred to her that nice men-- that is, men she met at nice homes and with whom she danced--could possibly do such things. It opened up an entirely new field of thought and one that was horrifying. Perhaps all men did this! It was bad enough that they forced their wives to go through such indecent performances but to actually seek out low women and pay them for such accommodation! Oh, men were so vile, and Rhett Butler was the worst of them all!
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Margaret Mitchell _ Gone with the Wind
there were so many things to do to bachelors and she knew them all, the nuance of the sidelong glance, the half-smile behind the fan, the swaying of the hips so that skirts swung like a bell, the tears, the laughter, the flattery, the sweet sympathy. Oh, all the tricks that never failed to work-except with Ashley.
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