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• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• 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.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• 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.
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
• The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
• 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.
• New Mexico, or was that Oklahoma?
• Jerry Was a Race Car Driver
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• I've been doing that all night and quite frankly my jaw aches
• The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
• The Epidemic That Never Was
• I have never been sure that you knew quite how much I loved you
• My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
• Every poem about thunder was written under the protection of a roof, or, at the very least, an empty sky
• 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!
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IX
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• OR WAS IT
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• war trophies for people who have never been to war
• A Woman Who Never Was
• As I Was Going to St Ives
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• I was never broken
• A poem for two pages of panel art for a comic that was never written
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
• But lately, I've been too tired to care
• Why a stolen car is never the same after it's recovered
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VIII
• Why I've never been ice skating
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• 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
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• Because I've never been able to make anything beautiful
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• 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.
• Most of these things I've never seen in real life. Only on screens. Or Elsewhere. I'd die without it.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• I was promised flying cars
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
• Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
• She was never mine. I always shared her.
• I've Never Been to Me
• the little friendship that never was
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• I was never any good at maths at school
• you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VI
• /but what was the question?
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• some say he was never here at all
• Despite her station, the quarry was never alone
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter III
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter IV
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Sugar and shit in the same bag; she lost the battle but is winning the war
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Was it Love, or Obsession?
• the horrible gift was really quite right
• An infallible way to discern whether a decade, in pop culture terms, was win or fail
• Same as it Ever Was
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter V
• We did not know it was a war
• why the Cold War was a stupid idea
• As this was my generation's war
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• Was It Heaven? Or Hell?
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• Was it Heaven? Or Hell?: Chapter VII
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• Oceania has never been at war
• always morning, but never breakfast
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• We are the same age but years apart
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• Evolution has never been observed
• I've Been Working on the Railroad
• Phone books have never been this exciting!
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
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• It hasn't been so long, but
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• So now that I've been cursed to die...
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• I've put in a request for a hooker with a freakishly high IQ but...
• I've been shot!
• I've been duped by Satan!
• I've been working on my homework
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• Never been to Woonsocket, never been to Spain
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• we can give up, but the world never will
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• I've been expecting you
• Things that have never been said in the entire history of man
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• I've got nifty things to do in September but it's not September yet.
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• Never Been Kissed
• I don't have a postmodern condition; I've always been like this
• I'd love you if I'd never been born
• With or Without You... but I prefer the latter
• I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
• Love cookies
• War is hell but men like it
• I am not gay. I have never been gay.
• This is the oldest I've ever been
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• 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.
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• For all sad words on tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• Since I've Been Loving You
• I've been on the net (user)
• We once played this same game, but with only our words

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