Tag: Gone with the Wind

Stop the World, I Want to Get Off

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven’t are winnowed out.” Ashley Wilkes, in Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell I told some friends yesterday that, while the thought of living off …

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An awful lot of talking…

The Scarecrow: I haven’t got a brain… only straw. Dorothy: How can you talk if you haven’t got a brain? The Scarecrow: I don’t know… But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking… don’t they? Dorothy: Yes, I guess you’re right. Oh, the places we could go with that quote. But, we …

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