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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
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• 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.
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• 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!
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• 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
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• 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.
• They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• 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
• Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• People have fucked up before
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• they see in me a man that is empty, in need of love. that will not hurt them.
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• 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 get knocked down, but I get up again
• 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
• They could have saved Kevin
• 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.
• They paved paradise, and put up a parking lot.
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• I was into them after they were hip
• they tell you to be your true self. to never give up on who you are. they don't know who i am.
• We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
• They tuck you up, your Mum and Dad
• 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.
• "for the last time: Up here they don't wear Lederhosen!": A christmassy eurotrash nodermeet.
• "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
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• I could grow up to become the soft ineffectual synthesis of untold compromises that I am today
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• Hold my tomb up to the light and watch me rot forever if you must. But don't you ever ever call me dead.
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before
• Every morning when I wake up, I feel guilty for all the things I have ever been
• I sealed up my future where he could not get it.
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• 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.
• I love you so much that I have to break up with you
• The Clothes They Stood Up In
• A lot of houses don't even have anyone to board them up.
• 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.
• There are two parts to every sacrifice: the pain of giving up what you love, and what's waiting for you on the other side.
• Let's run away to where the shooting stars fall and meet them when they land
• 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
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• They looked up at their moon and saw a peculiar bright spot
• They grow up. No one told me.
• You cannot pick up the pieces, unless they all fall to the floor
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• 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.
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• happily ever after
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• IRON NODER XVIII: NODING AS FAST AS THEY CAN, IRON NODER LIVES AGAIN
• Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
• Over and over it would rain so that we could not dig the body up
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• They did so because they believed they could.
• no easy love could ever make me feel the same
• You dropped that name, let me help you pick it up
• I love you but I have to let you go
• They are all pretty but fading.
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• Guilt is a hard thing to bury but it’s a really easy thing to dig up
• not what words are used, but how they are used
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Then the walls started to bleed again and I just KNEW I'd be the one cleaning it up.
• Don't be a smartass and offer up a contrived solution that *technically* solves the puzzle but goes against its spirit
• Tomorrow is the day after I wake up
• Three Golden-Tongued Knights, Whom No One Could Refuse Whatsoever They Might Ask
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Before they were famous
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• The first five minutes after I wake up
• Clean up after the Baby Boomers
• Don't count your chickens before they hatch
• StuartO))) has his head up his ass and could not write his way out of a wet paper sack
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• we can give up, but the world never will
• Running as fast as they can, IRON NODER lives again! (document)
• They were looking for God but found religion instead
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• Why are estate agents so superior, after all they ARE estate agents?
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• Her smile could light up a three-story building
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• As strangers they could speak, and it lifted the rain
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• Where the water for the flood could have come from
• I wish you could have met me before I became food
• Ground rush
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• they carry but they do not understand
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• I could not hear the echo of my steps as I descended nor the sounds of animals, for they were hiding
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• Sobering up before going to bed
• the only comfort we could ever have
• You Never Wash Up After Yourself
• Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
• How to get rid of spiders before they get rid of YOU
• How could you ever have enough?
• 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.
• Before they were the Science Fiction Greats
• Most of the men were disillusioned long before they met her
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• Of King Sigmund's last battle, and of how he must yield up his sword again
• They know me not by name, but numbers
• Let's hear that string part again, because I don't think they heard it
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• Dust mop so magic she can not believe how fun it is to clean up after people
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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?
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• The prophecy is made up, but it's also true.
• Boy meets me, boy becomes infatuated with me, boy realizes I take up space, boy runs like hell
• I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• some people touch it, but they can't hold on
• ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• beliefs can change the world, but they can't change reality
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
• Beliefs become religious when they become self-referential

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