Findings:

• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• 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
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• I thought I had eyes to see, but they don't see anything.
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• The dead eat hope. We had none to give them, so they were pretty emaciated by the end.
• 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.
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• though they could speak and had beautiful voices
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• They had been expecting me
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• Not that there's anything wrong with that
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• She was the prettiest, loveliest cat at the ball and she had upon her fine gilded whiskers.
• When I was young Time had no wings
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• They had built the Unrecordable Sculpture again last night
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• Was There a Time
• There was a man and a woman
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• I was there
• There Was No Leak
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• I was a bitter, purple-haired fat girl, and I had plenty of male friends
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• Once there was a way...
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• 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.
• What people talk about when they can't think of anything to talk about
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• No shit, there I was
• There was a rose that faded young
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• There was a young lady of Riga
• It was a dark and stormy night. I had taken a creative writing class.
• I had never known someone whose death was imminent
• Where's the kaboom?
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a time before
• There was a cold day
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was no one waiting for me...
• A knock there was upon the door
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• Before you, there was me
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• 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.
• Is there anything more British than a man sick on beef?
• There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
• remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• There was an Old Man on some rocks
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• I was into them after they were hip
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
• There was a little girl
• It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
• I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.
• if they couldn't see me as valuable then what would make me think that I was
• The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• It was better before they came
• They Had No Poet
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• I was the worst lay you ever 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
• Was I nearly as anti-consumerism as I had initially thought?
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• I was once young and had a home
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• She had become a mutton for punishment and he was a wolf
• The Fun They Had
• They had left, but her mascara kept running
• There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• The most fun I've had doing anything
• And only those who had been there knew the whole truth.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• I remember, there was one
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There was an old lady
• Oh acid, is there anything you can't do?
• There was once a Man
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There are times when they seem to be right
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• and there was this girl
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• One hour there was sunlight
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• 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 once was a man from St. Paul
• 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
• Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• There Was A Friend
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a baby in China
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Was it ever there?
• Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
• There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• There was always the blue of you
• There is a difference between considering your audience and giving the people what they want.
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• you had to be there
• Never trust anything that can think for itself
• It's not supposed to be anything
• i was here
• 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
• 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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