• 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.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
• I wish I was a half of a two
• Wondered what the point of all of that was
• You couldn't make me give it up to cheapening words for all the empathy and adulation in the world
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
• All he left her was alone
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• Was There a Time
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down
• The Day the World was about to End
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
• There are roughly three billion women in the world, most of whom won't even return my calls
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints
• There was a young lady of Riga
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• Into the World There Came a Soul Named Ida
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• What if the world were flat?
• Madmen have a world all their own
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• 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.
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a man and a woman
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There are 74 genuinely good people left in the world, and most of them are a painful bore.
• I'm not a geek, and I wish I were
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• It was fall, and fall does strange things to us all
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I wish I was in New Orleans
• Long Haired Preachers
• An open letter to all the lousy fathers out there
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• No shit, there I was
• There was a time when I was a better person
• There is some goodness left in the World
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• I wish I was carrying cigarettes
• Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• If there's hell below we're all going to go
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds
• The world was black and white
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• Children are the same all around the world
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There is magic in this world
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• May the world be a better place when I wake up
• I remember, there was one
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• Before you, there was me
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• How much information is there in the World?
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There was a cold day
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• I wish to fail continuously in this and all matters
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
• All the Diamonds in the World
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a time before
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Church of All Worlds
• Freud was wrong. Freud is dead. That is all.
• like all the world is beautiful at once
• The world is all that is the case
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
• all i ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There are no next lives
• A knock there was upon the door
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a baby in China
• All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
• The world was designed for giant squid
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
• there is a level in the world beyond the physical
• I was there
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• I Wish My Brother George Was Here
• All the world's a stage
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• There Was A Friend
• The World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• All I wanted was a Pepsi
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• Progress is in the reach of all who wish to make it
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• There was an old lady
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• more sure of all I thought was true
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• 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
• I got married on E2, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a husband
• All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
• the world is big enough for all of us. it has to be.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
• Was it ever there?
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• Of all the dorm rooms in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
• There was once a Man
• If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• and there was this girl
• Where I'm From, You'd Think There Was a Tea Party Going On in the Hostess Dumpster
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him
• Where's the kaboom?
• His version was better
• Born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad
• I wish I was a fish
• venomous lizards
• Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was
• There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• I Wish All U.S. Americans Had Maps
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was No Leak
• My world, your wounds, my wrath, my wish
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There is evil in the world

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