Findings:

• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was a time when I was a better person
• there's not much time, the blush in the sky begins to fade
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Was There a Time
• There was a time before
• Was it ever there?
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• the last time I clobbered a human soul it was over a red-nosed girl and a schoolbook in County Derry
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• There was once a Man
• Before you, there was me
• For the first time ever, glad to see the red and blue lights
• She was locked in time
• 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
• there's a time and place for mercy
• I take a long time to ejaculate. Do I have a problem?
• Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There was a cold day
• I was put on hold for time to gnaw me raw.
• God was in the west too, at one time.
• There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• There was a young lady of Riga
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• I remember, there was one
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• A knock there was upon the door
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• The first time I saw him was I emit tsal ehT
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• At that time I was taken up with alchemy
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
• There is no ending until you find a reason to begin again
• I lived in interesting times, came to the attention of those in power, and found what I was looking for.
• When I was 21, he was building a Time Machine
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• There was an old lady
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• No shit, there I was
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There will be time, there will be time, to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• The transition out of misery begins with discipline. You have always known this. It's time you resigned yourself to it.
• One hour there was sunlight
• Somewhere there is a syphilitic prostitute who is doing time
• There Was A Friend
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There was a baby in China
• No one will ever love Adam for his honesty. It's just not there
• Once there was a way...
• Before Time Was
• Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
• The first time I knew I was different
• The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
• Fruit cut from the vine, forgot and left to rot, long before it was time
• When I was young Time had no wings
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• I was a teenage time traveling combat waitress
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
• someday, when she will think back upon the time when she was as yet undishonored
• When I Was Born for the 7th Time
• There suddenly did not seem time enough for everything.
• That Time Zeph Was A Criminal
• Some time when I was a teenager
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• unfortunately, his entire corpus was composed in English, and so has been lost to the ravages of time
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• The monsters of the past will be long forgotten by the time the general populace is ever forgiven
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• like nothing ever was
• everyone who ever told me i was pretty was lying.
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• there's a first time for everything
• You can walk down a path you've gone down many times with the ghosts of all the people you've ever been.
• Right there a song became a soundtrack for this space in time
• There will be time
• There's a time and a place
• There was a rose that faded young
• No one ever said that the moral process of humanization was necessarily a pleasant thing.
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• There's nothing sadder than an unemployed stripper with a sick car at Christmas time
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Where's the kaboom?
• There is no time paradox
• Most of the time I just sit there, waiting.
• and there was this girl
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There is a different time scale
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• How to know if you will ever experience time travel
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• There was a man and a woman
• There were times better than this
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• I was there
• 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.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• No one was ever fired for buying IBM
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• Same as it Ever Was
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There Was No Leak
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• When, if ever, will there be permanent peace in the Balkans?
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• There's no such thing as happily ever after.
• There was no one waiting for me...
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• That time I was almost killed by scary cult children
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There was always the blue of you
• Last time I was in Chicago I broke my ass
• Dawn was a lucky time to give birth
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was a little girl
• Let there be another next time
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• Anna Begins
• Where do I begin?
• A journey ended begins again
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• This place needs more actual little piggies. Let's begin.
• In Dreams Begin Responsibilities
• Ever made it with an aardvark? We're quite rare.
• Will Everything ever stop expanding?
• All that I am and ever want to be
• Unhappily Ever After
• Best Math Books Ever Written
• Ever turn your keyboard over and shake it?
• The worst name ever

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