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• As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.

  George MacDonald

  Sadness, Joy, Sorrow

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.72, Delphi Classics

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• And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came and lived at Bag End. And if Sam thought himself lucky, Frodo knew that he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care. When the labours or repair had all been planned and set going he took to a quiet life, writing a good deal and going through all his notes. He resigned the office of Deputy Mayor at the Free Fair that Midsummer, and dear old Will Whitfoot had another seven years of presiding at Banquets.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Spring, Writing, Years

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• He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Reckless, Tenors, Wander

  Patrick Rothfuss (2010). “The Name of the Wind: The Kingkiller Chonicle:”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• I am certain that over the course of your own life, you have noticed that people's rooms reflect their personalities. In my room, for instance, I have gathered a collection of objects that are important to me, including a dusty accordion on which I can play a few sad songs, a large bundle of notes on the activities of the Baudelaire orphans, and a blurry photograph, taken a very long time ago, of a woman whose name is Beatrice. These are items that are very precious and dear to me.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Taken, Play

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• Hi. Cat was just keeping me company until you came back.” He glanced in the direction she’d just disappeared to before returning his attention to me. “Fourteen hundred and thirty-one." I blinked. "What's that?" "The year I was born, which is not, as you'll note, yesterday.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Years, Yesterday

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• Note that this journey is uniquely yours, no one else's. So the path has to be your own. You cannot imitate somebody else's journey and still be true to yourself. Are you prepared to honor your uniqueness in this way?

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Journey, Honor

  "Wherever You Go, There You Are". Book by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994.

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• There is something in me maybe someday to be written; now it is folded, and folded, and folded, like a note in school.

  Sharon Olds

  School, Someday, Written

  Sharon Olds, “A Week Later”

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• Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.

  Miles Davis

  Attitude, Play, Percent

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• I wish you hadn't been so over-courteous about putting the inscription on a card instead of on the flyleaf. It's the bookseller coming out in you all, you were afraid you'd decrease its value. You would have increased it for the present owner. (And possibly for the future owner. I love inscriptions on flyleaves and notes in margins, I like the comradely sense of turning pages someone else turned, and reading passages someone long gone has called my attention to.)

  Helene Hanff

  Reading, Long, Wish

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• Derek looked at Kylie and half chuckled. "The last time I saw that look from girls, there was a handwritten note on my neighbor's tree house that read 'No boys allowed.' I'll see you. And if I get anything from my computer research, I'll let you know.

  C.C. Hunter

  Girl, Boys, Tree

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• [Jason] faltered when he looked at Leo, who was mimicking taking notes with an air pencil. “Go on, Professor Grace!” he said, wide-eyed. “I wanna get an A on the test.

  Rick Riordan

  Air, Grace, Jason

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• I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages.

  John Donne

  Running, Time, Fire

  c.1595 Elegies, no.12,'His Parting from Her'.

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• I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

  Bernard Manning

  Funny, Birthday, Christmas

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• I've met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, 'Why?' Why did I cause so much pain? Didn't I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special unique specialness? Can't I see how we're all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God's got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, 'No, that's not right.' Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can't teach God anything.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Death, Pain, Wall

  "Fight Club". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1996.

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• If women were in charge of all the world's nations, there would be sincerely believe this - no military conflicts, and when there WAS a military conflict, everybody involved would feel just awful and there would soon be a high-level exchange of notes written on greeting cards with flowers on the front, followed by a Peace Luncheon

  Dave Barry

  Hilarious, Military, Believe

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• Definition of lecture: An art of transmitting Information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of students without passing through the minds of either.
  Definition of conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present
  Definition of office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.
  "What people say about me behind my back is none of my business."

  RuPaul

  Art, Home, Humor

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• As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the means for writing one note.

  Georges Bizet

  Inspiring, Writing, Mean

  Letter to Edmond Galabert, and G., October 1866.

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• Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different identities - related not just to religion but also to language, occupation and business, politics, class and poverty, and many others - we can see that the polarization of one can be resisted by a fuller picture. So knowledge and understanding are extremely important to fight against singular polarization.

  Amartya Sen

  Knowledge, Fighting, Class

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• Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes

  Joseph Joubert

  Writing, Twenties, Letters

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• I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

  Joe Pass

  Player, Guitar, Copying

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• Lord #‎ God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.

  Mother Angelica

  Heart, Names, Symphony

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• Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Symphony, Musical, Use

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• I know I'm known for singing some of those high notes but that's really not what giving someone goose bumps is all about. It's about really trying to find what makes you unique...

  Idina Menzel

  Unique, Giving, Singing

  "Idina Menzel: From Broadway To The Symphony". "Weekend Edition" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 19, 2012.

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• Music is the thousandth of a millisecond between one note and another; how you get from one to the other-that's where the music is.

  Isaac Stern

  Music, Art, Violinist

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• Writing every song is a little journey. The first note has to lift you.

  Enya

  Song, Writing, Journey

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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