“If there’s one thing in the world that gives me more amusement than anything else,” he remarked, it’s the sight of your mental struggles when a matter of principle is laid up against something practical like money. Of course, I know the practical in you will always win, but I keep hanging around to see if your better nature won’t triumph some day. And when that day comes I shall pack my bags and leave Atlanta forever. There are too many women whose better natures are always triumphing…”
“Did it ever occur to you that I loved you as much as a man can love a woman? Loved you for years before I finally got you? During the war I’d go away and try to forget you, but I couldn’t and I always had to come back. After the war I risked arrest, just to come back and find you. I cared so much to believe I would have killed Frank Kennedy if he hadn’t died when he did. I loved you but I couldn’t let you know it. You’re so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads like a whip.”
“We had been waiting for over an hour on Vivien Leigh (there was some miscommunication about the time of the shoot).. the shots were in costume. Clark was pacing back and forth. “I couldn’t make love to that dame if she were the most beautiful woman in the world!” And then, a rustle of silk, the sweet smell of lilacs, and there was the most beautiful woman in the world, standing behind him, touching his shoulder, whispering like a summer breeze.. “I quite agree, Mr. Gable. If I were a man, I’d tell that Vivien Leigh to go right back to merry old England and fuck herself.” Gable turned and looked. Leigh looked right back. The look in their eyes had flashbulbs in it. Slowly, Rhett Butler took Scarlett O’hara by the arm and walked onto the Southern staircase, talking and smiling as though they’d known each other all their lives.”
