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All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them. If the people who started wars didn't make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?

Margaret Mitchell
War, Fighting, People
Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

No matter what rallying cries the orators give to the idiots who fight, no matter what noble purposes they assign to wars, there is never but one reason for a war. And that is money. All wars are in reality money squabbles.

Margaret Mitchell
War, Fighting, Reality
Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.147, Hamilton Books

There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.

Margaret Mitchell
War, Men
Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.166, Hamilton Books

It's a curse - this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I do not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy.

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

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