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It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?


Patrick Rothfuss

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E.R. ROCK Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!
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ARVO PART This season, overall, I think we're ending on probably our highest note. We started on a rather low ...
DALILA ESHE To my son,

If you are reading this letter, then I am dead.
CASSANDRA CLARE I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This one note, or a si...
ARVO PART Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
GORE VIDAL Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.
GORE VIDAL It's a good idea for people if they want to finish their year on a good note or start their year on ...
BRUCE KELLY If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterwards.
JOE PASS It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Save your ass, give my ass.... what a friend you are...
DEYTH BANGER What I've learned is there's a scientifically proven phenomenon that's attached to grati...
DEBORAH NORVILLE If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
EDGAR ALLAN POE The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this a...
JOHANN VON GOETHE If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this a...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Good by-aye!" she chanted, my American sweet immortal dead love; for she is dead and immortal if you...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV For a second we just stand there in silence. Then, suddenly, Alex is back,
easy and smiling aga...
LAUREN OLIVER First of all, from where I sit, I am leaving on a high note, ... and a higher note than I deserve an...
DAN RATHER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I just want to finish on a good note.
JOANNIE ROCHETTE I took your note. I am putting it in the Times Herald.
GR Most people will neither appreciate nor even take a note of a simple person’s good work, but if he...
ANUJ SOMANY Once you start playing a piece, there is a connection between every note. You cannot say, 'I wil...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale.
KENELM DIGBY There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note.
GUSTAV MAHLER What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many ...
BRUCE JACKSON If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them, as the dial does...
WILLIAM HAZLITT I know this isn’t a conventional love story. I know there are all sorts of reasons I shouldn’t e...
JOJO MOYES It's not about retro or modern, it's about this note or that note, which sounds better?
DAN HICKS You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and, just technology fo...
ANNE HATHAWAY Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably no...
ANGELA MERKEL The advantage is we finished on a good note, so that winning feeling is hopefully instilled in this ...
ANDY MCDONALD I'm sure he's kept every note he's ever taken, and he was a very good note taker. We usually have tw...
PHIL FULMER It can even be a single note which defines the entire song.
LEON REDBONE If you are reading this... I'm dead so far probably or still alive who knows?
It's bad day in b...
DEYTH BANGER You don't have to have a well-paying job to be well off. [My grandfather] took what he had and he wa...
DOUGLAS WHIPP When I hit that note - if I hit it correctly - I'm just as important as Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, ...
CARLOS SANTANA If you're going on even an entry-level job interview, take the time to follow up with a handwritten ...
CINDY ZIMMERMANN If you're going on even an entry-level job interview take the time to follow up with a handwritten n...
CINDY ZIMMERMANN If you're going on even an entry-level job interview take the time to follow up with a handwritten n...
CINDY ZIMMERMANN As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted ...
YO-YO MA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. This is an everyday question and you must take note of it always. When you wake up, it should be amo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I'm tired of people disturbing the peace, getting on the radio and sounding a hot mess. If I can...
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HENRY MILLER Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded.
VERNOR VINGE I think for the most part it ended positively. Everyone finished on a good note.
GILLY LANE I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can&#...
MICHAEL SCHENKER Right now he needs to make a good effort to end this school year on a good note.
LINDA BREWER I feel good the file is closed, ... There are things here and there which I will note.
EZER WEIZMAN The last note felt really good.
JOEY SANTIAGO A pinned butterfly holds no delight. A pinned butterfly is nothing like a butterfly at all.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I always thought every day was a gift, but now I am looking for where to send the thank you note.
RANDY PAUSCH There is a moonlight note in the Moonlight Sonata; there is a thunder note in an angry sky.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Live honestly to a higher note. Life is too short. So, do the best you can and live your life to a h...
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??
(I'm stupi...
DEYTH BANGER I think it would be cool if you were writing a ransom note on your computer, if the paper clip poppe...
DEMETRI MARTIN I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more.
DEYTH BANGER When you end up on a bad note, it motivates you.
BRENNAN SCHMIDT In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.
STEVE WOZNIAK I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
MUDDY WATERS I probably wouldn't make a good accountant. I don't even understand what my accountant tells me. But...
MATTHEW BRODERICK Every single note on this album is there for a reason.
VANESSA CARLTON I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; ...
THOMAS HARDY Take time to show you care by writing a THANK YOU note. If you do this daily, you're LIFE may dramat...
LORRIN L. LEE We wanted to send him off on a good note.
KAWIKA MITCHELL Love misadventure;If a lion tells you "he loves you",think thrice before you follow,but if it is a s...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I think that a national audience would take note if such a marvelous facility were in trouble.
MARC SCORCA She'd stopped reading the kind of women's magazine that talked about romance and knitting and starte...
TERRY PRATCHETT Do make a note that it is mostly for fighting. I've been fighting all my life, and this is a fight I...
JULIEANN GOGGANS We have another game to erase that memory. We need to end on a good note and show what this team is ...
LEIGH BODDEN October is a bad month anyway. Historically, November and December are pretty good months and invest...
ELVIS PICARDO I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sample...
MIKE SHINODA What you want is fame?Then note the price:All claimTo honor you must sacrifice.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this m...
LYNNE TRUSS To become a better you, take note of what gets you offended quickly and never go there or let it com...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the d...
PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN Here is what I think now, reading what I wrote down for the police at age fifteen, right after I was...
JESSICA STERN If you are reading this quote you are not dead, if you are not dead then you are alive, if you are a...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV Life is for the living.
Death is for the dead.
Let life be like music.
And death a n...
LANGSTON HUGHES There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY I am Abhorsen..."
He looked at the baby again and added, almost with a note of surprise, "Fathe...
GARTH NIX There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f...
WILLIAM BLISS CARMAN There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this f...
BLISS CARMAN By the time you swear you are his, shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is infinite and un...
DOROTHY PARKER Take then good note of it. Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts ...
BRAM STOKER I was pleased with the kids' effort and we ended 2005 on a good note.
BRAD BLEW A dead heart is a dead life; keep your heart alive; let your heart beat for something unique!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud.
ROBERT MERRILL Except it isn't. Even taking one Post-It note home from the office is theft, technically speaking.
GARY GRANT When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
SHERMAN ALEXIE I felt great. I knew I was leaving and I wanted to leave on a good note. Hopefully I'll be back to f...
DREW MACINTYRE Note - The key to a good relationship is the key. Give me back the key.
SIMPSONS The market seemed to think [the Fed's bias] was a note of panic, but I didn't see that at all. It's ...
DAVID BLITZER The market seemed to think [the Fed's bias] was a note of panic, but I didn't see that at all, ... I...
DAVID BLITZER I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
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Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten.
Yet fa...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?"
I gave i...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire,
Till all around him desolation rings
And all the ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, th...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile....
PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous".
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game?
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?"
"It's not very heroic," I said...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?'
'Lucky?...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?"
"Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I
summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS