Ashley Wilkes Quotes

• In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

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  Margaret Mitchell

  Civilization   People   Brain  

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

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• He gives me a kiss that barely touches my lips – it means nothing or everything. After he’s gone, I think, Happy birthday to me. Jack says, ‘That was the guy?’ ‘That was him.’ Jake shakes his head. ‘What?’ ‘He’s not for you,’ he says. I say, ‘How do you know?’ but what I mean is, How do you know? ‘He’s like Ashley Wilkes,’ he says. ‘Any one of these guys is Rhett-ier than he is.’ Again, I ask my benignly inflected, ‘How do you know?’ ‘How do I know?’ he says, tackling me into a bear hug. ‘How do I know? I know, that’s how I know.

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  Melissa Bank

  Mean   Kissing   Thinking  

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• Ser eyes met his, hers naked with pleading, his remote as mountain lakes under gray skies. She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.

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  Margaret Mitchell

  Dream   Eye   Mad  

  "Gone with the Wind".

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• Rhett: Don't start flirting with me. I'm not one of your plantation beaux. I want more than flirting from you. Scarlett: What do you want? Rhett: I'll tell you, Scarlett O'Hara, if you'll take that Southern-belle simper off your face. Someday I want you to say to me the words I heard you say to Ashley Wilkes: "I love you!" Scarlett: That's something you'll never hear from me, Captain Butler, as long as you live.

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  Clark Gable

  Love   Flirting   Long  

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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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

  Heart   Reality   Envy  

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

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• Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

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  Clark Gable

  Movie   Badass   Wind  

  "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", 1939.

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• His voice stopped and they looked for a long quiet moment into each other's eyes and between them lay the sunny lost youth that they had so unthinkingly shared.

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  Margaret Mitchell

  Eye   Quiet Moments   Lost Youth  

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone With The Wind: American Literature”, p.891, 谷月社

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• Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

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  Margaret Mitchell

  Military   Hero   Fighting  

  1936 Ashley Wilkes. Gone with the Wind, ch.31.

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