There was a land of cavaliers and cotton fields called the OLD SOUTH...
Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took it's last bow...
Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave...
Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered. A civilization gone with the wind...
--the Foreword from the film version of GONE WITH THE WIND
Some memorable quotes from Margaret Mitchell's GONE WITH THE WIND…
"I mind losing the beauty of that life I loved. I find myself in a world which for me is worse than death- a world where there is no place for me."
"Take a good look my dear. It's an historic moment. You can tell your grandchildren that you watched the old South die."
"My dear girl, the Yankees aren't fiends. They haven't horns and hoofs, as you seem to think. They are pretty much like Southerners- except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents."
