Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I didn't notice this at first, but after being told it was there I did find it faintly detectable"

• 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.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• 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.
• sometimes, after an adventure, he likes to sit out there and think
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• There is no god but God
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• On being the first person to finish a test
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Being There
• Mass Murder and Mutilation! But first, the weather with Weather-Wise Wally Whimple.
• 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.
• I was me before being me was cool.
• A virtuous woman was a manly woman, in the womanly fashion of being manly
• moment after moment, we have to find our own way
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• There's nothing noble about being a soldier
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• I will be the first thing you will be thinking about after you wake
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• there are many voids but this one is mine
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• After living a life in darkness, the first steps into the light are the hardest to bear.
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• There is no dream but this.
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• The first five minutes after I wake up
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Should there be a statute of limitations on being a jerk?
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• In a school with over 20,000 people, there is no danger of being recognized later
• I was into them after they were hip
• What is there to say, decades after the fact?
• little pieces of her tragically poetic attempts at being loved that she was startlingly aware of, today
• Since when did being spiritual matter? Since when did thread count matter?
• Sometimes there is a value in observing yourself being wrong
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• Is There Life After Housework?
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• What was left after the party
• edev: I Shot Guest User (but I did not shoot n-a-t-e)
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Your angel stayed long after everything else was gone
• The ability of planarian worms to run a maze more successfully after being fed the remains of a successful worm
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• After a six-month diet of blues and greys I was back to white. I was an empty plate.
• but the fruitsellers are there every day
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• Oh, did you learn to play chess after YOU dropped a barbell on your head, too?
• First Observation After a Nap
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• /but what was the question?
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• One problem with being born really soon after Christmas
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
• There's no such thing as happily ever after.
• The Ten Commandments of the First Day After Hernia Surgery
• not as good as being there
• there's good and bad in being a database administrator
• The day I realized what being alive was
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• Being a dickhead
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• Why is "Being There" Considered Better?
• being a kid was great
• Cigarette butts wasted after nights of contemplation.
• After searching for my mother's name for twenty years, I realized I also did not know my father's
• Notes on ruining the beauty of barren places by being there
• Where the floodwaters went after the flood was over
• 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
• Opinions are immunity to being told you're wrong.
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• Pokemon being the first anime to most Australian children.
• The mindset of being alone but not lonely
• There's nothing wrong with being a fanboy
• There are more and better reasons to dislike a human being than race or religion
• There is life after virginity
• on the occasion of the city having fallen to the forces of evil, and there being no hope left among the people
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• It did not but, I think.. it will spill hope
• There but for the grace of God go I
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• A date idea, but not for the first date
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• 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.
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• Is There Life After High School?
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• 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
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• Hot pursuit
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• If you become lucid, you realize history's greatest literature was being written as you read it ...by yourself.
• Five minutes after falling off the cliff, I realized how high it really was
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• The first against the wall after the Revolution came
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.

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