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• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• 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.
• 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.
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• I'm gonna be sad and then I want you to make me laugh
• I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• When I grow up, I want to be a pretzelman
• But I don't want to be Princess Leia!
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• I want to be a dirty old man when I grow up
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• When I grow up (I want to be an old woman)
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• I want to be a pirate when I grow up
• Well if it's gonna be THAT kinda party, then I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes!
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• How to be strong for her, when all you want is to depend on her
• How to tell when a guy just wants to be friends
• I am blind when I want to be
• May the world be a better place when I wake up
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• How to tell when your dog just wants to be friends
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• What I want to be when I grow up
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• I want to be a sherpa when I grow up
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
• Spiral, spin, ride the whirlwind, knowing when the drumming stops, there will be no second dance
• When All's Well
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Everything you ever wanted to know about theatre tech, but were afraid to ask
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I wanted to show you something, but the verb sucked
• Three Years, Five Months and Two Days in the Life Of ...
• Back when grunge was still cool
• When will Linux be a good gaming platform?
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Once when I got like this I thought I was building a boat
• It was daylight when you looked up from your ditch
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• My mother is convinced I want to be a nudist
• When you know things are just not meant to be
• November 4, 1995
• Information wants to be deleted
• How to be a moron in any city but Baltimore
• It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
• If God was willing to let it be
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Waiting until dusk, when it was safe
• And then Satan said, Let there be cricket ball.
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• Since Hector was a pup
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• What the American people want politics to be
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• This must be the night when I remember how to fly, when the breeze catches my weight at last
• Do you remember how small your body was when you were five?
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Since when did you respect anything?
• Three lap dances ... and a wedding
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• The guy who may as well already be dead and therefore doesn't care about the consequences of his actions and is able to move with perfect freedom for the remainder of what will likely be a tragically short life
• You may be a noder, but you ain't no dancer
• I Just Want You To Be Happy
• When I was young
• He didn't want to be Gary anymore
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• When we finally fall, it will be fast and sure
• I want it to be more like the things I write
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• It's hard to be an addict when you're broke
• Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
• Why are you clapping when you should be screaming?
• We'll burn that bridge when we get to it
• Why is windows-bashing okay, but Linux-bashing bad?
• The demon was just under three feet tall
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• back when our blood was still warm
• When did you choose to be left-handed?
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• I don't want to wear your skin, but I will if I catch you!
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• Well, then, I hate Thee, unrighteous picture
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• When I was five
• Don't want to be lonely no more
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• I was doing so well.
• All I wanted was a Pepsi
• Who Wants to be the Next US President?!
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• Not atheist, but what then?
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• Since Adam was a boy
• When I have Fears that I may Cease to Be
• I may be a trenchie bitch, but you forget we wear combat boots!
• When I Was a Lad
• Where's the kaboom?
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• When all you want is help, and all you receive is pain
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• You, standing
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• You knew I was a rattlesnake when you picked me up
• This was when I knew my childhood was over
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• We Be Three Poor Mariners
• You touched me when I needed to be touched, and for that I will hold you in my heart forever
• I Want to be a Hulkamaniac
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• When I was Fair and Young
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• And when she came back she was nobody's wife
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• I remember when it was me who made her skin flush
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• All I want for Christmas is to be cooled
• and when you woke up, your goldfish bowl was empty?
• I want to be a muse
• Live Era '87-'93
• all I want to be is holding your hand
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• The Reluctant Dragon: Part Three
• Since I was knee-high to a grasshopper
• And then we'll invade Russia
• Want to be a werewolf
• Information doesn't want to be anything
• Here were the words I was waiting for, without the part I wanted
• No matter what size you wear, you will not be able to find it when you shop
• Why Descartes should be Resurrected and then Shot
• If you tolerate this piss then your bitter will be next
• I may be lying in the gutter, but I am looking up at the stars
• If you meet a strange, confident woman, she may well be a witch
• Things men want when they're drunk
• Leaves of three, let it be
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• All that I am and ever want to be
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• The smiles you smiled when you thought no one was looking
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God
• Be the change you want to see in the world
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• I had hoped our relationship would be a long and happy one, but I'll settle for short and exciting
• All the things she had at one point wanted to be
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they pour it out
• When at last I found no further traces of the living or the dead, then I stopped.
• Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
• Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
• When I was ten years old
• If I can just get Mike to the 24-hour Whipper-Snapper, I will be okay.
• Maybe someday I'll be an M&M the color of your eyes
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• If I'd have shot her when I met her, I'd be out of jail by now.
• Even I laughed at me when I built this cross-species genetic analyzer. Well I guess I showed myself!
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• Information wants to be free
• What's it going to be then, eh?

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