THAT OTHER NOTEBOOK
By Dan Miller
March 20, 2007
I have no way of knowing who reads these essays, except through email responses I receive.
Oh, occasionally some kind person will stop me in a restaurant, or the grocery store, or at some function, and tell me they've read something I've written here.
And it always surprises me.... pleasantly.
Andy Rooney once said he'd prefer to be read by 100 people than to be watched on TV by a million. I used to think that was a silly statement.... but now I sorta understand what he meant.
These little essays are a very satisfying, and personal, connection.
About a year ago, when WSMV changed its website provider, many of my older essays were removed from the archives here, so I started this, my own archive for hundreds of Notebook entries going back to 2004.
I use a hosting provider called TypePad, and one of the odd things it allows me to do is check the exact words anyone types into Google, Yahoo, MSN, AOL (or whatever search engine they're using) that result in a link to my site.
Over and over -- literally hundreds of times -- people have ended up here at Dan Miller's Notebook after having googled words such as, "Notebook movie quotes" .... or, "quotes from movie The Notebook".
The search engine directs them to my archived entry titled, "The 103 Greatest Movie Quotes."
Now, to be clear, they weren't looking for my site.... but when it was offered as one of many choices, they (whoever they are) took the time to click in. And I'm tickled they did.
Anyhow, it started me thinking about two things. First, if so many people are interested in reading quotes from that particular 2004 movie "The Notebook" -- maybe I should check out the quotes.
Second, if so many people are being directed to Dan Miller's Notebook when -- in reality -- they're trying to find words spoken in "The Notebook" -- then maybe I should offer what they're looking for..... a few quotes from that movie.
So I looked up a few. And -- you know what? There are some nice quotable quotes.
Here you go.... from the movie "The Notebook":
Duke (in voice-over narration): "I am no one special, just a common man with common thoughts. I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me, and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect, I've succeeded as gloriously as anyone who ever lived. I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and for me, that has always been enough."
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Noah to Allie (in a letter): "The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you've given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever."
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Allie's mother (about her sweetheart of 25 years ago, now a laborer shoveling gravel): "Sometimes when I'm in the area, I just stop here and I watch him, trying to picture how different my life might have been." [she cries]
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Duke (reading): "Summer romances end for all kinds of reasons. But when all is said and done, they have one thing in common: They are shooting stars - a spectacular moment of light in the heavens, a fleeting glimpse of eternity. And in a flash, they're gone."
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Duke: "That's my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that's where my home is."
Pretty good stuff, all from the movie "The Notebook"... released in 2004.
I'll dedicate that last line to my sweet wife Karen.
Heck, maybe we'll rent that movie tonight.
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