• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• back when our blood was still warm
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• and there was this girl
• As a matter of fact I did invent the Internet
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• What story down there awaits its end?
• No shit, there I was
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• The End of the Matter, and the Fallen King
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• There is no beginning, no movement, no peace and no end
• When Pride Still Mattered
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Are there still so many Nazis in Germany?
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• In the end, only kindness matters
• No matter where you go, there you are
• Was There a Time
• Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold War?
• Finding air where matter once was
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• How did I end up here?
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• Where's the kaboom?
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• George W. Bush is a moron, and there is no 'grey matter' there
• Was it ever there?
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• I saw what you did there
• The beginning was the end
• There's still place for the odd concentration camp
• There was a man and a woman
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Before you, there was me
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• What story there awaits its end?
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• There was an old lady
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• wake up and find her still there
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• I did not miss what my body did not remember, until it was reminded
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• A knock there was upon the door
• The Day the World was about to End
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a baby in China
• I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• There Once Was a Farmer
• Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
• Everything Stalin did was legal
• There was once a Man
• There was a land where lived no violets
• I was floating in the ocean of his eyes.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• I was there
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• There was a cold day
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• There Was A Friend
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• that pain was something I needed, and probably did to myself
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There was a time before
• There Was No Leak
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• Since when did being spiritual matter? Since when did thread count matter?
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• One hour there was sunlight
• In the end, it was a Good Thing that I rushed Pierre.
• There was a young lady of Riga
• I remember, there was one
• I saw him lying there leaving me, and I did not know
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Back when grunge was still cool
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• still there
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Still Looking for Ends
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• No matter what I did to fix it, the damn thing never got everything right
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• I still know what you did last summer
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• There is a place in France
• Behave as if there were a God
• There are no transitional fossils
• Is there a god?
• This is our ool. Notice there is no P in it. Please keep it that way.
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• There needs to be a man page for females
• There are some applications for which a GUI is just not powerful enough
• Here and There
• There are some things money can't buy, for everything else there's Mastercard
• your handprints there, at the base
• There exists no 1:1 mapping between words in different languages
• venomous lizards
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• There is already a perfectly good word for this
• There is only now
• There is no music in money
• throw them away; there will be individually-wrapped replacements
• For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
• There is something you don’t want to say
• Vancouver, Washington
• It was not a dream
• Concrete, Washington
• Imagine if your microwave was intelligent
• The highlight of my night was two guys kissing
• tonari no shibafu wa aoi
• New Mexico, or was that Oklahoma?
• The Man Who Was (user)
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VII
• "It was wrong to do this," said the angel
• Willie was a chemist
• You thought the silent treatment was as cold as it could get
• I was invisible beside you
• One big happy random assortment of truckstop trinkets
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• Since Hector was a pup
• As an Atheist, I sometimes wish I were Jewish
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• Democracy assassinated the family that was here
• This is a node that was solely created to fill the PQ criteria. Klaproth Ahoy!
• Why did the chicken cross the playground?
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• Let's not, and say we did
• I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates from Outer Space
• Why did kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
• That week with her was like drinking bubbles
• You are precious to me. Did you know that?
• The night a princess was captured
• Why did the girl fall off the swing?
• Did I do that?

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