Findings:

• If I really loved you, you'd never get so close.
• Death may be the only goal you ever achieve
• 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.
• If you existed I would never get out of bed
• Many of me, laid end to end, would never reach the moon
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• It will only make our insides burn until we are nothing but ash.
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• These are the only minutes you'll ever have. Take good care of them.
• If we ran this back an infinite number of times across infinite existences our souls would still never connect, so don't regret.
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• We once played this same game, but with only our words
• I never thought it would be like this
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• You'll never quite know how much you've lost until you get what you were looking for
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• the only comfort we could ever have
• It's as close as I'll ever give to genuine
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
• What the hell ever happened to our rights?
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• always morning, but never breakfast
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• I'm not religious, but I think I have a close relationship with God
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• We completely understand the public's concern about futuristic robots feeding on the human population, but that is not our mission.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• Can we ever truly act against our own interests?
• you are a comet when you streak close by the radios get weak
• But what kind of violence would not be natural? Is not cruelty natural?
• Never Ever
• Happily ever after, without the happily, only the after
• The only place I ever go is the grocery store.
• Sitting close enough that he gets the idea
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• Forever blue, but never black
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• Love cookies
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• As Guan Yu would surrender to the Han, but not to Cao Cao, I will surrender to you, but not to your desire to control me.
• Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• She sat in virginal white, eyes closed, with only her face in rose
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• Arguing with my father has never achieved anything for me ever
• If you're going to masturbate, would you at least close the fucking door?
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• I never get mail
• How would you know? And how could you ever know?
• Seven opening lines if he would ever look me in the eye
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• Skim this life but never live
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Fuck them all but the six
• The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!
• 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.
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• Gods exist but will only talk to those who stay awake after bedtime under the covers.
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
• we can give up, but the world never will
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• An army of slippers but only two feet
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• 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.
• Close only counts in Horseshoes
• At night, her eyes closed, she would
• Nothing could be close to quite like this
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Ever made it with an aardvark? We're quite rare.
• He Would Close His Eyes, and the World Would Burn.
• Things you would bring with you if you were ever invited to shower with jessicapierce
• The most interesting job I've ever had
• Soulmates who will never ever meet again
• Close only counts in horseshoes, hand grenades, and hard radiation
• Over time, the metaphor becomes literal. Eventually, we will wish for the figurative meaning, but left with only the chilling reality.
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• only one justified teardrop ever in the history of the world
• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• The Only Song I've Ever Written
• in case the sun ever would conquer the earth
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• The Only Thing That Ever Has
• 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.
• Find every story and every poem you've ever written. Now rewrite them in blood.
• It's as if the fact that language can only ever provide an approximate representation of reality somehow makes reality inadequate.
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• It never rains but it pours
• I considered cutting my toenails, but they're my only natural defense
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• 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.
• Welcome to Canada; we're closed for the playoffs
• 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.
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• Longing for brief, but ever unattainable moment of... lucid thought?
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
• The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves
• 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.
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• Close, but no cigar
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• We had no bait but our tongues
• But if you destroy the world, where would we live?
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• 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
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Sad but true. Won't ever change. The end.
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• The good guys and the bad guys were on the back of the boat and I swear I only turned my back for a MINUTE but when I came back, they'd killed Mozart.
• I would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• 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.
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• 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 the only power i truly have is the strength to let it go
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• executed but never exposed

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