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• 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.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• 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
• 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.
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• sometimes it feels like the world is trying to tell me to wake up
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• They grow up. No one told me.
• You cannot pick up the pieces, unless they all fall to the floor
• They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• 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
• "for the last time: Up here they don't wear Lederhosen!": A christmassy eurotrash nodermeet.
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad
• candle smoke and christmas spice leapt up their noses like cardamom cats
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• "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
• Books to read before you give up on fantasy
• One of these days the cops will catch up with me
• You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
• burning stars lit up their hair
• Ten Stupid Things Men Do to Mess Up Their Lives
• We like to stay up late at night
• Books to read before you give up on sci-fi
• We like to get together on the weekends and beat up evildoers
• How to get people to clean up their core dumps
• You're not a good person. You know that, right? Good people don't end up here.
• I come home, she lifted up her wings. I guess that this must be the place.
• Tips for geeks trying to pick up girls
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• Entropy catches up with all of us
• I know what holds up traffic - in 5 words!
• Electrocuted crows hung the wrong way up on the power lines, smoking feathers falling like leaves.
• You really shouldn't let people you don't know tie you up
• It looks like a tourism brochure photo from up here
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• Country kids driving their sins up haunted logging roads
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• and the moment we said we're not giving up is the moment we knew we'd never stop
• I like to take up space
• Books to read before you give up on crime fiction
• Tied up tight, like a bride on her wedding night
• People have fucked up before
• Nothing like a crazy uncle to look up to
• She wakes me up by tickling my feet
• Throw your hands (up) in the air, (and) wave them all around like you (just) don't care
• And her legs went on forever, like staring up at infinity
• 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.
• Gosh! That single kiss made me feel like I'm charged up with the power of a million exploding suns!
• Do you know how many times you've woken up at 4:15 with deep insights?
• I crave it like well water, pulled up from the deep
• Over and over it would rain so that we could not dig the body up
• In this workshop we'll cover skills like setting up and configuring a terrible howl or shriek.
• Things people put up their butts
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• up to their gossip
• the birds seem to know what we're up to out here.
• Sobering up before going to bed
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• If you EVER come across an empty floor, just know that I'm gonna fuck you up.
• We all know what beautiful eyes are like, what they do to you.
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• Waking up is nice for those first few moments before you remember who and what you are.
• You take up too much space
• 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 voice of God spoke to me. It said, "Lift up everyone around you."
• Too loud to pick up that flinch.
• kids grow up too fast
• Every Tuesday, I dress as a 46-year old woman and waitress at a diner on route 27. This is the meaning of life.
• Trying to keep up with technology, when the quiet full moon is momentarily more than enough
• Here's the thing about trying to blow up the Earth
• I paved paradise, and put up this, like, bigass parking lot
• Shards of memory stirred up by the wind
• 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
• Boy meets me, boy becomes infatuated with me, boy realizes I take up space, boy runs like hell
• The streets were washed fresh with rain and a warm wind blew as I showed up to everything just barely on time.
• Too many people say "I love you" when they mean "I like you"
• His name came up like a match on wooden me
• Somebody Up There Likes Me
• We get tangled up like wires
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• like coming up for air
• Even as he watched the sea rise up like anger
• When you make your own mother cry you know you've fucked up
• just like everybody else, we will find a way up.
• Done up like a kipper
• 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!
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I feel disillusionment creeping up on me like the day after a 21st birthday. A deep sigh of shallow disappointment.
• Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
• Why do Christians bring their kids up as Christians?
• I woke up in a bed I did not know
• Dead links in writeups
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• I like my breasts the way they are
• They don't know what I've done
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• they seem each like a smile of great sweetness
• What they don't know can't hurt them
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• You know a writer has made it when they stop posting on e2
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• How can a man stand when they cut off his feet?
• I know they are watching me
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• Ground rush
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• And They Shall Know No Fear
• Do they know those days are golden? Build a rocket boys
• telling people what they don't need to know
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• drum rudiments which sound like they were named by a neural net
• magic is real and it's nothing like what they say
• Eye contact at a distance
• Aw, Mom, ya know I'm not like other guys; I'm nervous and my socks are too loose
• some summers they drop like flies
• they don't know what they'd do without me
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• To those who know who they are
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• they does not know what it might be to live without them
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• 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!
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• if i keep moving they won't know
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• 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.
• These women who must live like the high Sierra white pine, fed somehow by the alpine wind
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• Tell your kids things that they shouldn't know about
• They Know Me
• Kids that age think they know it all
• We don't have time. Not like they do.
• They don't know what they're missing
• They be killin' some hog over thar'.....
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• They Will Burn like Streaks of Gasoline on a Lawn
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• Children are people readers and they know when you are fiction
• Fragments of the world are falling away, and we're tripping over the holes they leave behind

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