Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

Margaret Mitchell Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Nov 8, 1900
  • Died: Aug 16, 1949

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell was an American author and journalist. One novel by Mitchell was published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel, Gone with the Wind, for which she won the National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel of 1936 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. In more recent years, a collection of Mitchell's girlhood writings and a novella she wrote as a teenager, Lost Laysen, have been published. A collection of articles written by Mitchell for The Atlanta Journal was republished in book form.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. business

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

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

With enough courage, you can do without a reputation. courage

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We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. 74 sayings from Winston Churchill

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