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• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• They all lived happily ever after
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• 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!
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• 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.
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel a strong compulsion to get up from the table
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• A lot of houses don't even have anyone to board them up.
• Every morning when I wake up, I feel guilty for all the things I have ever been
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• I love you so much that I have to break up with you
• People have fucked up before
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• I joined the Army in order to die, and they sent me where I could die
• They will love him long after he is gone.
• "for the last time: Up here they don't wear Lederhosen!": A christmassy eurotrash nodermeet.
• They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad
• I was into them after they were hip
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• They could have saved Kevin
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• I sealed up my future where he could not get it.
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• There's no such thing as happily ever after.
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• "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
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• They grow up. No one told me.
• We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• You cannot pick up the pieces, unless they all fall to the floor
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel no compulsion to get up from the table
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• I could grow up to become the soft ineffectual synthesis of untold compromises that I am today
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• happily ever after
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• As strangers they could speak, and it lifted the rain
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• Boy meets me, boy becomes infatuated with me, boy realizes I take up space, boy runs like hell
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• StuartO))) has his head up his ass and could not write his way out of a wet paper sack
• drop the bass and come out with your hands up
• Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• dr's Hospital Adventure : nurses put up with more than you can ever realize
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Of King Sigmund's last battle, and of how he must yield up his sword again
• Running as fast as they can, IRON NODER lives again! (document)
• 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
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• Tomorrow is the day after I wake up
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• no easy love could ever make me feel the same
• The first five minutes after I wake up
• Clean up after the Baby Boomers
• You dropped that name, let me help you pick it up
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• some summers they drop like flies
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• They had built the Unrecordable Sculpture again last night
• The torn fragments of the world slowly stitch themselves together again, and in the rubble you hear them say: Why Are You Here?
• Why are estate agents so superior, after all they ARE estate agents?
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• Where the water for the flood could have come from
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• the only comfort we could ever have
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Ground rush
• Over and over it would rain so that we could not dig the body up
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• Before they were famous
• How could you ever have enough?
• You Never Wash Up After Yourself
• It was better before they came
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• They did so because they believed they could.
• Books to read before you give up on fantasy
• Most men will not swim before they are able to
• they can drop bombs and no one will get hurt
• Sobering up before going to bed
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• Then the walls started to bleed again and I just KNEW I'd be the one cleaning it up.
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
• we can give up, but the world never will
• Dust mop so magic she can not believe how fun it is to clean up after people
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• They are all pretty but fading.
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• The prophecy is made up, but it's also true.
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• i'm afraid i will have to request that no one have the name "john" ever again. Existing "johns" will need to change their names.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• not what words are used, but how they are used
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• Guilt is a hard thing to bury but it’s a really easy thing to dig up
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• Her smile could light up a three-story building
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• they carry but they do not understand

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