Findings:

• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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.
• 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.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• I'm tone-deaf, but it's okay
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• 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
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I Think I'm a Pervert, But I'm Totally Over It
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• I may be young, but I'm not naive
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• The distance between two atoms was the distance between 6 months ago and today
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• A long time ago, under the shady tree in my yard, I was dead
• I'm cold, but I'm happy
• Being a dickhead
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• excuse the pencil but I'm inkless
• 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.
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• With you there is nothing involved but everything
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• it won't kill you to breathe it in, but it may change you, years from now
• there are many voids but this one is mine
• 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.
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for
• I don't Daylog but I'm Daylogging
• That's a valid point, but right now we're focusing on...
• This essay was due a year ago
• 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.
• It was 30 years ago today, Miyamoto taught the kids to play... (e2poll)
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• A pocket-sized device with a single button that says, "Everything as it was one minute ago".
• Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
• will my heart be there, where I left it so long ago?
• I'm not sick but I'm not well
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• I met him two days ago and now he wants to fly me to Peru
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• I'm looking at the river, but I'm thinking of the sea
• there are no rules, but there is a lot to learn
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• there are people who are gone but wanted me to be happy
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• There is no god but God
• I'm not a doctor, but I play one on TV
• But I'm a Cheerleader
• I'm sorry, but we can't watch the rest of MacBeth until it is censored
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Men may cry "Peace! Peace!" but there is no peace
• I'm poor, but I'm happy
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• I'm nothing but a flower falling off a winter stem
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• Books you haven't read in a while, but intend to read again
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• The body's alive, but no head. I'm having a lot of trouble accepting it.
• I'm not religious, but I think I have a close relationship with God
• but the fruitsellers are there every day
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• /but what was the question?
• I'm no fucking Buddhist, but this is Enlightenment.
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• 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.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• I'm beginning to think that nothing I think or say makes sense to anyone but me
• It is nearly always fatal, but amusing while it lasts.
• But I'm a good person! Yeah great you wanna help me with this or what?
• 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
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• the struggle continues, but at least i know i'm not alone
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• There is infinite hope, but not for us
• I ought to be grateful, but instead I'm angry
• There's someone in my head but it's not me
• but mr can you maybe listen there's
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• I'm not racist but...
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• Why is windows-bashing okay, but Linux-bashing bad?
• I'm not anorexic, but I'm working on it
• I'm not a god, but I'm working on it
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• 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.
• 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!
• I'm not going to fire a 2 million dollar missile at a 10 dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• Think there's too much violence in society today? Maybe, but consider this:
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• 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.
• The light is red, but there is a green arrow
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• I'm gay, but I'm not sure it's genetic
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• It's not happening here, but it is happening now.
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• It’s memories that I’m stealing, but you’re innocent when you dream
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
• but the future is always tomorrow -- even now drowning in bytes
• I'm sorry sir, but it appears that the abyss hasn't put you on the guest list...
• There is no dream but this.
• untie the boat and turn on the water i'm gone i'm gone i'm gone but it's alright
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• There is poetry in my soul, but I keep it on a short leash
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• 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.
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• I'm not pregnant, but thanks for asking
• But there are NUNS watching us!
• i'm not sure but i'm listening
• Maybe I'm naive but this type of website bugs me
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• I'm straight, but you might be the one
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• Ain't what I'm gonna be, ain't what I wanna be, but lord thank you I ain't what I used to be.
• I'm not a rocket scientist, but
• Honesty is the best policy, but wait a while

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