Findings:
- 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 kind of day that makes you want to lock your bedroom door, start masturbating and never stop
- My father's secret life was never meant to be secret
- the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
- Shut the front door!
- I could never draw but they made me an artist
- How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
- I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
- Skim this life but never live
- I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
- I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
- Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few
- /but what was the question?
- But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
- She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
- You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
- strange and too short but I was lonely
- getting your doors welded shut
- And locked the door
- I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
- The door was closed
- I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
- Tribute to the Man Who Never Was (document)
- I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
- He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use 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.
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
- It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
- If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- 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.
- I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
- you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
- we can give up, but the world never will
- It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
- the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
- we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
- I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
- I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- Twelve mirrors and a locked door
- It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
- I may never be queen, but you will never break me
- A poem for two pages of panel art for a comic that was never written
- I was never any good at maths at school
- how to make door lock picks
- She was never mine. I always shared her.
- I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- She was locked in time
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
- you never once told her how beautiful she was nor how much you truly loved her
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- 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
- A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
- The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
- It never rains but it pours
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
- The flowers smiled, but she was gone
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- always morning, but never breakfast
- you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
- I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
- I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
- The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
- Girls possess me but they're never mine.
- Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
- curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
- words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
- forever falling, but never losing altitude
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Forever blue, but never black
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
- i thought i was special, but it was you
- 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
- one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
- but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
- The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
- I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
- Lock the doors
- How to work an airplane toilet door lock from the outside
- Shut Not Your Doors
- Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
- I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
- I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
- The braille on the door was not symbollic of my own blind search for an answer. Or maybe it was.
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- pub that never shuts
- I had never known someone whose death was imminent
- The real reason pi was never calculated to a high precision in ancient times
- He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
- How to break through the next locked door
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
- Nostalgic for a time that I never experienced and for a person I never was
- The Epidemic That Never Was
- Despite her station, the quarry was never alone
- the little friendship that never was
- I was never broken
- A knock there was upon the door
- We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
- I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
- A Woman Who Never Was
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- some say he was never here at all
- I was the man who never lied. I never lied until today.
- executed but never exposed
- butt naked
- I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
- Mr. Butts
- Words that sound dirty but really aren't
- There is no god but God
- That'd be the butt, Bob
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
- Butt hinge
- Butt joint
- John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
- I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
- But my computer really IS possessed
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- Butt crack of dawn
- Lots of MIPS but no I/O
- Things people put up their butts
- Project B.U.T.T.
- It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
- Sororities are nothing but social crutches
- butts ARE litter
- You may think I'm lying, but it's true
- But what are they really thinking?
- Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
- I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
- I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
- But I digress
- If I could slip this skin but for a moment
- Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
- My library books are late, but I don't care
- Sexist jokes
- Yard Butt
- Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
- Not really by the rules, but...
- No, but I'll have a beer
- Free but worthless shares
- I know you are, but what am I?
- You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
- Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
- I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
- Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
- You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- My Mother and I Love Your Butt
- You know to me she's but a fetish
- What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
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