Findings:
- They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
- their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
- Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
- If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
- You see them driving around, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes
- 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.
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- 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.
- I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
- What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
- They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
- They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
- Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
- A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
- 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
- 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.
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- But can you still cry like a child?
- Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
- Out of practice but my heart hurts so
- Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
- The fire behind their eyes died slowly and silently until nothing but the shells remained
- I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
- Sexist jokes
- I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
- In What Distress Candide, Cunegund, and the Old Woman Arrive at Cadiz, and Of Their Embarkation
- Their truth is not what matters
- armed with nothing but their own vision
- I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
- Maybe it's bad manners, but you still can't buy my baby
- I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
- I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
- we are learning how not to forget, but we still don't know what's true
- Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
- I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
- But what are they really thinking?
- The Old Grey Whistle Test
- i still hear the choir, but you are gone
- 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.
- No matter how wise an old sheep, he can't teach a fish how to polevault
- out with the old and in with the new
- Ring out the old, ring in the new
- I still haven't tried the roulette
- some people touch it, but they can't hold on
- You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
- I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
- You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
- Butterflies are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf, but they're beautiful
- Old chestnut: Carrying a ladder around a corner
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
- Things they don't teach you at law school but really ought to
- Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
- Run around like chickens with their head cut off
- the double edged comfort of knowing your way around
- I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
- When You Are Old And Grey
- There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
- I could never draw but they made me an artist
- not what words are used, but how they are used
- Wandering about with keys dangling from an oversized shoelace around your neck
- I worry that no matter how hard I pray, you'll always be just out of my reach
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- Once I googled your old screen name and found web pages you made in high school. Are you married now? Is that why you haven't called?
- The Story of the First Old Man and the Hind
- Achieve riding happiness with $75 and 30 year old motorcycle. Malarkey? Or effective way?
- The Library Book
- Old and in the Way
- matter out of place
- I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
- old chestnut: all but two
- You can pulp a story but you cannot destroy an idea.
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- You noders still fucking suck, but your needing my wisdoms bad
- You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
- We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
- Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
- I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
- They walk around her like she is in danger of breaking
- Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
- Not her voice, but the way her voice changes,
- you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
- The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
- Boston sports fans and their teams: A brief but angsty perspective
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
- Calling, always calling, not understanding, but calling still.
- How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 15
- How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 14
- How to eat your way around the Baltimore beltway, exit by exit: Exit 26
- like you're blind but still can see
- Books you haven't read in a while, but intend to read again
- 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
- Huddled around the story as if it were a fire
- We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
- All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
- Yeah, but still
- The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
- they carry but they do not understand
- we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
- every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
- 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
- There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
- Stepping out in grey
- ships are safest in harbor, but they were made to sail
- greyed out
- A Grey Matter
- grey matter
- George W. Bush is a moron, and there is no 'grey matter' there
- Great Days Out Around Cambridge 2001
- I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
- 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 still haven't found what I'm looking for
- if you haven't learned your lesson from reading this, you can only learn it the hard way
- matter and spirit are one and the same. they are knitted together.
- no matter how pretty the flower, it's still only a weed
- When Pride Still Mattered
- I haven't seen her in a month. She is still beautiful.
- They are building a fence around the sidewalk
- An Old Story
- The Story of the Second Old Man and the Black Dogs
- The Story of Rama, The Old Man
- A Fantastic story from an old guy
- The Little Old Man's Strange Story
- grey matter (node_forward)
- They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
- The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
- How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
- Things people put up their butts
- This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
- It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
- It ought to be broad daylight, but the shadow that envelops the story shows no signs of brightening
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
- A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner
- Every Which Way but Loose
- They do not know how immortal, but I know
- They know me not by name, but numbers
- Starving in the greenhouse
- They blew up the world, but what really pisses me off
- They were looking for God but found religion instead
- cancer kids hangin around out by the trains
- Love cookies
- You suckers still fucking node, but your noding wisdom. My bad.
- Pirates and ninjas: why they should be friends but can't be
- 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.
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
- 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
- Small but still a person
- The old hands you’ve baked around hers
- They are all pretty but fading.
- but what's the moral of the story?
- Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
- You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
- Where an old man of Aran goes around and around
- The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
- I love you, but it's cold out here
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
- And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
- Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you
- We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
- Somehow, the cats are still around
- My adulterous thoughts, they fly around the world.
- Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
- You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
- If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
- Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
- The drunker I am, the better I am at pool. Or is that the other way around?
- Hours pass, but she still counts the minutes
- fuck around and find out
- we have the most gigabytes of infodata but we still shoot each other on the streets
- may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
- I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
- Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
- They had left, but her mascara kept running
- but my dreams, they aren't as empty as my conscience seems to be
- They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
- But this isn't a Cyberpunk story
- Look around for the people doing the good work, follow their lead, stay calm.
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