Frasi di Margaret Mitchell pagina 3

“Vi amo, Rossella, perché ci somigliamo tanto; rinnegati, tutti e due, e profondamente egoisti. A nessuno di noi due importa che il mondo vada in rovina, purché noi ci salviamo.”

Gone with the Wind

“Dio mi è testimone che gli yankees non mi abbatteranno. Supererò questo; e quando sarà passato, non soffrirò mai più la fame. Né io né i miei. Dovessi rubare o uccidere… Dio mi è testimone che non soffrirò la fame mai più.”

Gone with the Wind

“Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli insieme e dire a me stesso che l'oggetto riappiccicato vale quanto quello nuovo. Quello che è rotto è rotto… e preferisco ricordarmelo quando era in buono stato piuttosto che aggiustarlo e e vedere le tracce della rottura finchè vivo.”

Gone with the Wind

“La terra è la sola cosa al modo che valga qualche cosa […] perché è la sola cosa al mondo che rimanga e, non dimenticarlo!, la sola cosa per cui vale la pena di lavorare, di lottare… di morire.”

Gone with the Wind

“Tesoro, il mondo perdona, in fin dei conti, tutto, meno il fatto che la gente si occupi dei fatti propri.”

Gone with the Wind

“Ho paura di morire e di andare all’inferno. -
Se egli avesse riso, sarebbe morta. Ma Rhett non rise.
- Siete in ottima salute, mi pare.. e forse l’inferno non c’è. -
- C’è Rhett! Sapete benissimo che c’è!-
- So che c’è; ma è qui, sulla terra. Non dopo che saremo morti. Dopo la morte non vi è nulla, Rossella. Il vostro inferno lo provate adesso.”

Gone with the Wind

“The whole world can't lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven't got any more - and by remembering too much.”

Margaret Mitchell: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.”

“All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.”

“I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.”

“They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“He made her play and she had almost forgotten how. Life had been so serious and so bitter. He knew how to play and swept her along with him.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“What’s broken is broken—and I’d rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I live…I’m too old to believe in such sentimentalities as clean slates and starting all over.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“So I have. Let me hold the baby, Scarlett. Oh, I know how to hold babies. I have many strange accomplishments. Well, he certainly looks like Frank. All except the whiskers, but give him time.”

“I hope not. It’s a girl.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.”

Origine: Gone With the Wind

“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.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“You have eternity in which to explain and only one night to be a martyr in the amphitheater Get out, darling, and let me see the lions eat you.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“All really nice girls wonder when men don't try to kiss them. They know they shouldn't want them to and they know they must act insulted if they do, but just the same, they wish the men would try.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“you can go to the Devil and not at your leisure. You can go now, for all I care.'
'My pet, I've been to the Devil and he's a very dull fellow. I won't go there again, not even for you.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“You should be kissed and often, by someone who knows how.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.”

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Variante: You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.
Origine: Gone with the Wind

“It's not because I've -what is the phrase? -'swept you off your feet' by my -er- ardor?”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“Anyone as selfish and determined as you are is never helpless.”

“She couldn't survey the wreck of the world with an air of casual unconcern.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents.”

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“I was right when I said I’d never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can’t ever do anything else except look back.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“But, Scarlett, did it ever occur to you that even the most deathless love could wear out?”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“The usual masculine dissillusionment is discovering that a woman has a brain”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“Fo' Gawd, Miss Scarlett! We's got ter have a doctah. Ah- Ah- Miss Scarlett, Ah doan know nuthin' 'bout bringin' babies. -Prissy”

“They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“She [Melanie] is the only dream I ever had that lived and breathed and did not die in the face of reality.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.”

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Origine: Gone with the Wind