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• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• These dead open their bodies to the living like a door
• It was something that sand out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• Every door in my house just leads to another room
• It was something that sang out while burning itself up, at the risk that nothing would be left.
• A knock there was upon the door
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• I secretly admire Cruella De Vil. PETA will be kicking down my door any second.
• 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.
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• Limiting the number of fuzzy shirts allowed in one room
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• Revolving doors that only open when someone exits
• Why airplane doors can't be opened mid-flight
• Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
• Dammit, those barricades have to be around here somewhere!
• The woman had a carnivorous frenzy which could only be soothed by the succulent sirloin
• Spared the sight of what you wouldn't be the same if you had seen.
• Locking the doors of the House of God
• Farm House Doors
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• the cutest baker in the room was making sadfaces at me when i walked out
• How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
• Starving in the greenhouse
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• The door was closed
• I was supposed to be dead when this picture was taken
• Dreaming up the Blue Door House
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• house next door
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Inability to decide on what your morals and values should be
• The House Next Door
• The House with Two Doors
• I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
• Pictures of my parents' house taped on my fridge door
• I can only pray that, when I finally leave, I will have done little enough damage to be totally forgotten
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• i hope there are those in this world who know what a gift it is to have anyone that knows the whole of their heart
• what I thought was going to be a turtleneck turned out to be a dickey
• in a world where the bar keeps seeming to be lower, where stupidity has got a foothold, there is room for excellence and uncompromising vision
• if everyone were 10% more good, there would be a 90% reduction in evil
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• What am I doing here when I could be swimming with the dolphins?
• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• People in prison should be treated like animals
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• Mull around in my mind for a while and you'll find so many treasure troves and so many graveyards that you won't be able to tell the difference between them
• A lot of houses don't even have anyone to board them up.
• standing on my lawn, with the scissors in your hands, and you could come in where you'd like, to my paper house
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Do masochists enjoy slamming their fingers in a car door?
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• When I stop going there, I will be well.
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• Friend, you have a lot to learn if you think loving me would be a bad idea.
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• I would open a door for you
• How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms.
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• You should have killed me when you had the chance
• When she was new, she rolled around the sky like a black umbrella blown by the wind
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• Dogs can be used for detecting mold in houses
• If we were all part of one big television show, seriously, you'd be a poorly written character
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
• you had to be there
• Don't leave the house or you'll be shot for deserting.
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• pity be for those with one thing to say
• and i just want to be there when the lightning strikes
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
• When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• Why are you clapping when you should be screaming?
• When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks
• We're doing very well, doctor. Please open the door?
• Where's the kaboom?
• Important people with busy schedules need you to become their servants
• Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
• If you're going to masturbate, would you at least close the fucking door?
• The room labeled "Leave your bullshit at the door"
• I never thought it would be like this
• I'm not one to be had for the wanting, Sir
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• I knocked on the massive door, and came one step closer to knowing what I didn't know before.
• Children should be seen and not heard
• I Was the Girl You Were Told Not to Be
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• When each had their own personal anthem
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• There will never be another you
• Questions you will be asked when you study Chinese
• When did you choose to be left-handed?
• Abbey Road should never be played on random
• I want to be a dirty old man when I grow up
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• When I grow up, I want to be a pretzelman
• Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
• When my boat comes in, you will be the first to board
• When shall I be free?
• Those Who Must Be Kept
• Why people who get the wrong number make it out to be your fault
• Things never were what they used to be
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• When I grow up (I want to be an old woman)
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• 17 year old freshmen should not be given a Visa, even if the Skittles are free
• What engineering textbooks should be like
• It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.
• When will Linux be a good gaming platform?
• There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
• she's the reason the dust i finally leave will be better than the dust i came from
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• Those who are as a light in the darkness shall ever be troubled by moths
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts

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