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• They know me not by name, but numbers
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• I don't know who Amber is, but she's got a stalker
• Right-wing doesn't automatically mean racist
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• One of the dangers of necromancy is you don't really know who's on the other side or what they're going to give you in return.
• 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.
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• The difference between reply and reply to all
• When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• telling people what they don't need to know
• play dumb
• Getting over "Disco Sucks!"
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• 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.
• I want you to know who I am beyond my name
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
• Eye contact at a distance
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• Women who don't realize they're pregnant until they give birth
• Things you give people that they keep
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• cat haters
• To those who know who they are
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Being solicited for sex by people who don't even know your gender
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• 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.
• People who have stared into the abyss know each other.
• by people who know what salsa should taste like
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• 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.
• Posting your life on Everything2 is a dumb idea if people know who you are in real life
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• You're one of those people who knows all the words to every song, aren't you?
• 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 can you still cry like a child?
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• Painting the world of the people to come. Absent but in dreams.
• The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• You know what? I've had it up to here with "Trix are for kids!" Give the rabbit a fucking bowl of cereal, you dick!
• as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• But who codes the coders?
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• Character names in Harry Potter
• Never give an order you know will not be obeyed
• I don't give a DAMN about your character
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• A language full of words she understands, but does not know the sound of, yet.
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• Men are designed to be good hunters, but it's women who are born killers
• i know you are but what am i
• like you're blind but still can see
• 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.
• Maybe you were inherently complicated, maybe you've been complicated over the years, but know that you are complicated.
• we can give up, but the world never will
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• some people lie but they're looking for magic
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• it'd break my heart but if i knew you got away it'd give me peace of mind till the day i die
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• In a room of jesters, a lone monk is obviously a buzzkill. But in a room of monks, it's a lone jester who's a buzzkill.
• Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard
• Actors who have portrayed the parent(s) of a character portrayed by Ben Stiller
• Because everything is teetering nobody notices. But whenever something falls everybody knows.
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• Telegraphic character names in science fiction
• 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
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• 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.
• We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.
• Things people put up their butts
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• Susan Goldman, who has cervical cancer, is partly thankful as she braces herself but changes her mind as she's sprayed with burning jet fuel.
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• 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.
• he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• your fake name is not for everyone but good enough for me
• Calling, always calling, not understanding, but calling still.
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• 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
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• they carry but they do not understand
• we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• You wouldn't know it, but I think you're achingly beautiful
• I didn't know how to keep it but I couldn't throw it away.
• 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 boy who cried censorship
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• I know, let's give shit away
• Don't Give Me Names
• Any man can handle adversity. If you want to test his character, give him power.
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• But what are they really thinking?
• Give everything you can to everyone you know
• Dont Give Names (user)
• he gives rest unto him who comes at the eleventh hour
• They forgot to give me the operating system!
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Sexist jokes
• We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Love cookies
• Not too sentimental, but I want you to know
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• beautiful & sad but i know you already
• The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
• Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• Give crowns and pounds and guineas, but not your heart away
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• You suckers still fucking node, but your noding wisdom. My bad.
• Nobody Knows It But Me
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• A person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky animals
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• Yeah, but still
• The Princess Who Kicked Butt
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• They are all pretty but fading.
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• Small but still a person
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• But who nodes the noders?
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• You don't know me, but someday you will
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
• we have the most gigabytes of infodata but we still shoot each other on the streets
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• The dead eat it always, but the living who eat it die slowly
• beauty is invented, but it is also personified, and I know this because I have met her
• not what words are used, but how they are used
• the struggle continues, but at least i know i'm not alone
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby

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