Gone with the Wind

Brent Tarleton: What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett? The war is gonna start any day now, so we'd have left college anyhow. Stuart Tarleton: War! Isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those fool Yankees actually want a war? Brent Tarleton: We'll show 'em! Scarlett: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war; this war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. Brent Tarleton: Not going to be any war? Stuart Tarleton: Why, honey, of course there's gonna be a war. Scarlett: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door. Brent Tarleton: But Scarlett, honey... Stuart Tarleton: Don't you want us to have a war? Brent Tarleton: [protesting] Scarlett, honey, please. We're sorry. Stuart Tarleton: [also protesting] We'll talk about something else. I promise we will. Scarlett: [relenting] Well... [walking back to the spot with the twins] but remember, I warned y

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Gerald: Have you made a spectacle of yourself running after a man who's not in love with you when you might have any man in the county? Scarlett: I haven't been running after him. It's just a surprise, that's all. Gerald: Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings I'd say "yes". I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be happy with him. Scarlett: I would, I would! Gerald: What difference does it make who you marry so long as he's a Southerner and thinks like you? And when I'm gone, I'll leave Tara to you. Scarlett: I don't want Tara. Plantations don't mean anything when... Gerald: You mean to tell me, Katie Scarlett O'Hara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for, worth fighting for, worth dying for, because it's the only thing that lasts. Scarlett: Oh, Pa, you talk like an Irishman. Gerald: It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be forgetting, Missy, that you're half

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Scarlett: Cathleen, who's that? Cathleen Calvert: Who? Scarlett: That man looking at us and smiling. The nasty, dark one. Cathleen Calvert: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation. Scarlett: He looks as if, as if he knows what I look like without my shimmy. Cathleen Calvert: Scarlett! My dear, he isn't received. He's had to spend most of his time up North because his folks in Charleston won't even speak to him. He was expelled from West Point, he's so fast, and then there's that business about that girl he wouldn't marry. Scarlett: Tell, tell! Cathleen Calvert: Well, he took her out buggy riding in the late afternoon without a chaperone, and then ... And then he refused to marry her! [Cathleen whispers in Scarlett's ear. Scarlett gasps, and then whispers in her ear] No. But she was ruined just the same.

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Gerald: And what does the captain of our troops say? Ashley: Well, gentlemen, if Georgia fights, I go with her. But like my father, I hope that the Yankees let us leave the Union in peace. Man: But Ashley, Ashley, they've insulted us! Charles: You can't mean you don't want war! Ashley: Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about. Gerald: Now gentlemen, Mr. Butler has been up North I hear. Don't you agree with us, Mr. Butler? Rhett: I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. Charles: What do you mean, sir? Rhett: I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in the whole South. Man: What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman? Rhett: I'm afraid it's going to make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen, sir. Charles: Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can lick us? Rhett: No, I'm not hinting. I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. T

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Ashley: Isn't it enough that you've gathered every other man's heart today? You've always had mine. You cut your teeth on it. Scarlett: Don't tease me now. Have I your heart, my darling? I love you. I love you. Ashley: You mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them. Scarlett: I could never hate you. And I know you must care about me. Oh, you do care, don't you? Ashley: Yes, I do care. Oh, can't we go away and forget we ever said these things? Scarlett: But how can we do that? Don't you...don't you want to marry me? Ashley: I'm going to marry Melanie. Scarlett: But you can't. Not if you care for me! Ashley: Oh my dear, why must you make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make you understand? You're so young and unthinking. You don't know what marriage means. Scarlett: All I know is that I love you! And you don't love Melanie! Ashley: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood and we understand each other. Scarlett: But you love me! Ashley: How could I help lo

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Scarlett: But you are a blockade runner. Rhett: For profit, and profit only. Scarlett: Are you tryin' to tell me you don't believe in the cause? Rhett: I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me.

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