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• all life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.
• Hard Times Come Again No More
• 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
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Time filled with encounters that leave no mark on us
• dark highways take us near and far from home
• Prices should have no more than 2 significant digits
• Technological advances take up more of our time
• No Time, No Room, No Thought, or Writing Can
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• She's smarter than me but she's also more quiet, therefore she has no personality which makes me feel better
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Here in the dark, nothing is real but time
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• Verizon should spend more time fixing its network and less money on lawyers dot com
• It's time to take the penny out of circulation
• Take a deep breath and write out your thoughts for me
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• The road to the Annapolis Summit: more despair in the Middle East
• Curiously, neither of us are afraid of the dark
• Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• There is no god but God
• Dark Medieval Times
• Wylie & Oliver Emasculate Morrissey and Robert Smith (but Morrissey more)
• We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
• Thoughts in the dark
• Take you wandering till it's dark
• El Nino Claims a Victim, or: Porsche + Rain + Stupidity = No More Porsche
• Middle With No Beginning Without End
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
• we ain't got no money, honey, but we got rain
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• Don't take this personally, but it's personal
• 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
• Growing grapes is harder than making wine. You will discover this, but it might take a lifetime.
• 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.
• but don't take my word for it
• Tanks But No Tanks
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• The Most Difficult Part of the Story: Beginning, Middle or End?
• Why are human beings so much more difficult to housetrain than dogs?
• It's dark and scary out there. The night can avenge itself.
• No More Cocoons
• I should just check myself into the morgue now and save myself that messy middle step.
• No More Tears
• Why more people should use the color brown
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Atheism is no more logical than believing in god
• I'm acquiring more bottles, tubes, and jars as time goes on
• Faith No More
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• Neutron-bomb landscape, lights gleaming but no sign of humanity
• But alas, I have no badger to offer you
• There is no dream but this.
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• no ideas but in things
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
• In the city, silence is no longer silence but the memory of a noise
• Scrabble words with a Q but no U
• Dark, shirtless but not chilled
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• Bye Don, you were nothing but a waste of time
• but you should be right here, right next to me
• No model is true, but some models are useful
• Spinning shapes like a song out of order. In the dark she can see fireflies.
• Strong, dark and no sugar
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• Crawling through festering flesh, hungry, yearning, waiting to tear out of the dark.
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• Car stuffed to the brim. Pulling out into the dark avenue, two cats in the laundry hamper voicing feline displeasure.
• Turn the dark cloud inside out
• lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood
• more you swear at the work, the more difficult it will appear to laymen
• It's dark and time to go to bed
• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• we grow, lest it consume us
• Lonesome No More
• There shall be no more cakes and ale?
• No, but I'll have a beer
• I'm building the bridge in stone this time, lest someone drop a torch.
• Tenchi, go get some more *hic* TEA!
• Fear no More
• I Ain't Got No Home In This World Any More
• No more prisons
• No more monkeys jumping on the bed
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• Starving in the greenhouse
• 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.
• Close, but no cigar
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
• Time flies but aeroplanes crash
• Hot pursuit
• Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• The body's alive, but no head. I'm having a lot of trouble accepting it.
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
• We had no bait but our tongues
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• No Snakes, but We’ve Got a Lot of Folks Looking
• 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.
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• They may take our car keys, but they'll never take our freedom
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• Your bed is no longer here, but the windows are
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• I always imagine those surrounded by time, but I walk on top of it.
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• 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.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but leaves a trail of busted stuff
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• but to more fully experience the wheel
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• My skin will remember your skin, but I will no longer know. I will be a ghost forever
• I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• Today will be difficult. But tomorrow, good riding.
• 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.
• There is no Goddess but Goddess and She is Your Goddess
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• melancholy is good, but not every single day, and certainly not more than two days in a row
• we lost a million men but we got a million more
• Truncheons in the dark drown out sunny message
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• In a Dark Time
• no island, but you're not a big happy archipelago either
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• Swooping through the almost silent night with no hands on your handlebars but it's OK
• But we should not be afraid. How else will we discover the answers?

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