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"That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!"
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"If a moneyed man had a "corny mind, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!"

"A government which is not liked by the artists is certainly a bad government, because artist sees very well what is behind the masks!"

"An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!"

"Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!"

"In any country where there is a dishonorable government, there is certainly a dishonorable nation!"

"Most of the time it is a good job and a good honour to fight against people's values, because most of the time people's values are irrational and absurd!"
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"I'll think of it tomorrow, at Tara. I can stand it then. Tomorrow, I'll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is another day."

"I want peace. I want to see if somewhere there isn't something left in life of charm and grace."

"But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories."

"Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information."

"I bare my soul and you are suspicious! No, Scarlett, this is a bona fide honorable declaration. I admit that it's not in the best of taste, coming at this time, but I have a very good excuse for my lack of breeding. I'm going away tomorrow for a long time and I fear that if I wait till I return you'll have married some one else with a little money. So I thought, why not me and my money? Really, Scarlett, I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands."

"Scarlett kicked the coverlet in impotent rage, trying to think of something bad enough to say.'God's nightgown!' she cried at last, and felt somewhat relieved."

"The way to get a man interested and to hold his interest was to talk about himself, and then gradually lead the conversation around yourself-and keep it there."

"Until you have lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is."

"Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I'd go away and try to forget you, but I couldn't and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much I believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn't died when he did. I loved you but I couldn't let you know it. You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip."
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