Findings:

• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• 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
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I was once young and had a home
• Before you, there was me
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• There Was No Leak
• There was no one waiting for me...
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• Not that there's anything wrong with that
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• There was always the blue of you
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• There's a fine line between feeling a will to live and feeling a fear of death. Sometimes they can both lead you down the same path.
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• The Fun They Had
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There Once Was a Farmer
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There Was A Friend
• There was a baby in China
• I was there
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
• There is a difference between considering your audience and giving the people what they want.
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• It was better before they came
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• There was a little girl
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• They Had No Poet
• There was once a Man
• They had built the Unrecordable Sculpture again last night
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• Was it ever there?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a rose that faded young
• No shit, there I was
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a man and a woman
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was a time before
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There are times when they seem to be right
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• and there was this girl
• They had been expecting me
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• I was into them after they were hip
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• The most fun I've had doing anything
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• There was an old lady
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• I remember, there was one
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
• There was a young lady of Riga
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• There once was a girl named Irene
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Where's the kaboom?
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• One hour there was sunlight
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a cold day
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Was There a Time
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• 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.
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• A knock there was upon the door
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• Once there was a way...
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• you had to be there
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• (and it wasn’t in my time nor yet in your time: but a very good time it was for all that)
• Never trust anything that can think for itself
• It's not supposed to be anything
• To Anthea, who may command him Anything
• an excess of anything can be a poison
• Arguing with my father has never achieved anything for me ever
• Because I've never been able to make anything beautiful
• I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
• America's social security is anything but secure
• I still can't think of anything about Fight Club that changed my life
• It is safe to say that I'm going to get my payback if he is anything like me.
• nothing true can be said in a single sentence, and anything said in three is a lie
• If you're not doing anything bad, you have no reason to fear free speech.

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