Findings:

• The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
• All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• Born with the gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• Once there was a way...
• Was There a Time
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The sound was starting to get stuck in my head like "It's a Small World"
• It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
• all it cost him was a Penny
• There was an old lady
• some say he was never here at all
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• 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.
• 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 a time before
• I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
• There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
• I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
• The Day the World was about to End
• The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
• Before the World was Made
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Where's the kaboom?
• I remember, there was one
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There was a cold day
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• A knock there was upon the door
• There Was A Friend
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• One hour there was sunlight
• There was a baby in China
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
• Wondered what the point of all of that was
• Oxygen was the world's first pollutant
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
• 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.
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
• I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
• She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
• When I was very young, I knew that the world was made of honey.
• There was once a Man
• John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
• The World Was Wide Enough
• I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
• There was a rose that faded young
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There once was a girl named Irene
• Was it ever there?
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• 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
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
• I was there
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Before you, there was me
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• There Was No Leak
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• There was always the blue of you
• There was a little girl
• There was no one waiting for me...
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
• The world was designed for giant squid
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
• It was fall, and fall does strange things to us all
• Freud was wrong. Freud is dead. That is all.
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• All I wanted was a Pepsi
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• more sure of all I thought was true
• The sun was caught playing unashamedly in her auburn hair, setting our world on fire with giddiness
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• All you ever did was let it happen
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• I remember when it was me who made you want to take over the world and enslave humanity
• all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
• She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
• What if the world were flat?
• I remember when all this was trees
• The world was black and white
• All he left her was alone
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• i saw the ugliest thing in the world and thought it was neat-o
• He was hard in all the wrong places
• for a moment the whole world was beautiful
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• No shit, there I was
• I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
• The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a young lady of Riga
• I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• There was a man and a woman
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• and there was this girl
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• venomous lizards
• Madmen have a world all their own
• There is some goodness left in the World
• There is magic in this world
• it's there for all to see, and yet some people never see it
• There are 74 genuinely good people left in the world, and most of them are a painful bore.
• There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
• there isn't another side. it's all right here.
• There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
• Into the World There Came a Soul Named Ida
• there is a level in the world beyond the physical
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• There is evil in the world
• All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
• there is a place where the dead live. it is in us. it is all around us. it is more than we can understand.
• If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
• How much information is there in the World?
• Go then. There are other worlds than these.
• Church of All Worlds
• All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
• There are no next lives
• Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks
• There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind

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