Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "maybe it was designed to tell a totally different story than the one I was being paid for"

• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• No one older than twenty-five was stupid enough to take a job here.
• The Library Book
• old books can tell more than one story
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• The emotion on her face was always the one that she was feeling in her heart
• I was me before being me was cool.
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• Tell me a story about being really undead
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• The day I realized what being alive was
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• A pocket-sized device with a single button that says, "Everything as it was one minute ago".
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• The Story of the Vizier Who Was Punished
• Tell me a story about being really alive
• every secret thing was made by some one
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• The first time I knew I was different
• Would you tell me if it was true?
• The world was designed for giant squid
• God was creepier than I expected so I took it out on the little people
• Here lies one whose name was writ in water
• Maybe it was not a Friday night
• When H.A.R.L.I.E. Was One
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Trying to catch one clear promise out of the jittery confused language the night was whispering
• being a kid was great
• One hour there was sunlight
• Don't misunderstand this one, it was like palm against palm through a window
• I remember, there was one
• Jesus Was a One Beer Queer
• John 3:16 was said to one man, at night
• I'll tell you what kind of guy I was
• The one thing Superman was bad at
• Each one was the scene where you hold your breath
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• This is the story of how I was killed in Peru
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• this is unlike the story it was written to be
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• On being left-handed, the ocean, God, and more than one toothbrush
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• More than he was willing to give
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• What if architecture was like web design?
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• How To Avoid Being Something Other Than What One Is Not
• Trompe
• I was one of those girls
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Fast-talking career gal who thought she was one of the boys
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• I was the center of gravity of Chicago for one beautiful Saturday
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• One big happy random assortment of truckstop trinkets
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• Oh. I was wrong. She's the one. Goodbye.
• Like most of my dreams, that one was licensed for commercial use
• the Abayudaya sang, no one was hungry and herds of buffalo roamed the plains
• I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Your version of my story is probably so much better than the real one anyway.
• And Every One Was a Henry: A Magnificent Maryland Renaissance Oktoberfest E2 Throwdown!
• My first and last attempt at a one night stand was raided by the police
• Shaymus is older than I thought he was
• Besides the part where she was the only one
• No one ever said that the moral process of humanization was necessarily a pleasant thing.
• It was more than perfect understanding
• A One Paragraph Story
• Each one has their own story
• When I tell stories about you I have to use my hands
• No one can know what you want unless you tell them
• Everyone tells their own story with them as the star
• Every Picture Tells a Story
• Telling real pearls from fake ones
• I'll tell you this, though; sometimes being lost is a good thing. Just enjoy the things you might not see again.
• Help me tell you a story about things and yourself, without pants
• Tell me a story about elephants
• Laws Tell Stories
• tell me a story about lesbians
• Tell me a story about clouds
• Interview With A Former Soccer Star
• Tell me a story about trains
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• A better model than the one at data general
• Kids (Three Different Ones)
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• One Dollar: A Story
• Being a Christian is magical and foolish: Maybe we're all caught up in a collective psychosis
• He vowed not to consider any time interval shorter than one hour.
• If you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• Yes - oh dear yes - the novel tells a story
• it is better to meet god alone than with one who might misunderstand
• A thousand years from now, we should have coffee and tell stories while the world disintegrates
• Tell me a story
• It's not the words you write, it's the story you tell
• The songs that break you down and the stories that they tell
• she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
• Your eyes tell a whole other story
• Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
• I just submit to one or two days of horror for going out and playing at being a normal functioning person
• No one can be totally logical
• Decrying political correctness without an understanding of its causes and intended consequences is little more than racism muttered under one's breath
• watching headlights roll by, maybe you noticed one, swept by a little too slow
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to smoke pot, tell them "MY GRASS IS FOR MOWING"
• The only thing worse than being uninformed, is being informed and not caring
• A sexist joke I'm allowed to tell, due to being a woman
• Unhelpful in More Than One Way
• Anyone who tells you there is only one correct way to write a novel is trying to sell you a book.
• Tell me a story about rains
• How to listen to the stories that cats tell us
• For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.
• I'll Tell You a Story
• Do war movies tell the story or show the violence?
• It's not the story you tell, it's the words you write
• Being accurate about the small things is more important than getting the story fundamentally right
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• Tell me a story about flowers
• I could tell you some stories
• Tell me a story about brains
• Yellow tells the story of time gone by
• She tells stories as if she knows what the ending will be.
• The Story That Is Still Being Written
• The stories I could tell you, if you only were here to hear
• Tell me one thing
• the only true religion is the one that lives in the heart of every human being
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• dress the pretty lady, write the stories, design the poems
• There is a different time scale
• Cursing is probably one of the first things you'll learn in a different language
• i'm a million different people from one day to the next
• The winter chill reminds those of us closer to our end than our beginning that maybe, just maybe, safety isn't the primary goal in a life that will certainly end in death.
• The Wild Colonials
• Remembering the future in a different way than we remember the past
• There's more than one way to skin a cat
• Sometimes it feels like we are more than one person
• One problem with being born really soon after Christmas
• I'm no better off with a car than I am without one
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• Being stoic, Daoist, and at one with the universe is NO FUN
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• Comfort the child that looks most beautiful, rather than the one that is crying
• The Lovecraftian compulsion to keep writing even as one is being devoured
• Two heads are better than one
• I've got a page one story buried in my yard; I've got a troubled mind
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• No one dreams of being a guidance counselor
• On Being the one who goes away
• Rebeca Martinez
• Big Book Chapter One: Bill's Story
• on being the only one in a restaurant
• we're part of something bigger than any one of us. i just feel lucky to have been chosen.
• Next time one of those tough kids asks you to cultivate bioethanol, tell them "MY CORN IS FOR EATING"
• Why Women Are Paid Less Than Men
• Why female athletes are paid less than their male counterparts
• isn't there more than one book
• As bad cop stories go, this one is pretty weaksauce

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