50 Quotes by Donald McCaig


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    When people say what is 'Gone With the Wind' about, they say it's a love story between Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. But Mammy is almost a third party.

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    I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

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    If you get a dog that goes out there and bumps the sheep, comes on too hard, the sheep don't trust him.

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    Had we settled in Pennsylvania, there's no way I would have written a Confederate novel.

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    Research is the historical novelist's map, constraint, and purest energy.

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    Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.

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