Findings:
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- 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 you, there was me
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was no one waiting for me...
- There was always the blue of you
- There Was A Friend
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Was There a Time
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- I remember, there was one
- nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
- You Forget Sometimes There Was Sunshine Back Then
- There Was a Desert in My Head
- There was an Old Man on some rocks
- There was a land where lived no violets
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- One hour there was sunlight
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- There was a cold day
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- There Was No Leak
- There was a time before
- A knock there was upon the door
- I was there
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- There was a baby in China
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
- there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
- There was once a Man
- There was a young lady of Riga
- I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
- Was it ever there?
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- There was an old lady
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- and there was this girl
- Where's the kaboom?
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- There was a man and a woman
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- There was a rose that faded young
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- Once there was a way...
- Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
- there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
- There was a little girl
- There Once Was a Farmer
- No shit, there I was
- Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There was a time when I was a better person
- 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 a time when I got lost wherever I went.
- he listened so well, he was still curious.
- Everything that there is to do with electronic instruments has been done
- Sometimes people will tell you that there are no options and they will be wrong.
- The time they fantasize about was built on a lie
- It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
- For every set there exists a larger set
- been there, done that
- I was into them after they were hip
- In any world in which i was your friend for even a day, i am grateful.
- There were a few moments you will not hear about, but they happened
- It was one of the worst things I have ever done
- This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
- Which was what we wanted
- What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- I promised myself to make a picture of my heart, and there it is
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- There are as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are in the set of all real numbers
- there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
- The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
- he was alive, and some of the other people, they were carbon copies
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- Which of the Bewitched Dicks was gay?
- the space was filled with love like light and that made me shine as well
- Proof that there exist irrational a,b for which a^b is rational
- Everything that there is to do with a guitar has been done
- There are times when they seem to be right
- There's no point unless you make one
- The envelope held fingernail parings and a note which read, "There are more where these came from"
- There should be laws requiring electric cars to make the Jetsons flying car noise
- 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!
- And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
- I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
- Ain’t there a pen that will write before they die?
- There is a difference between considering your audience and giving the people what they want.
- Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
- It was better before they came
- Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
- Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
- 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 seven hills of Rome
- Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
- 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.
- I was doing so well.
- Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- The Trial: Andrew Johnson was not guilty of the crimes for which he was impeached.
- Food which was intended as such by nature
- I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
- it was years before they met again, by chance
- It was the Fourth Verse that they couldn't deal with
- Upon the hills where day was done
- There are some applications for which a GUI is just not powerful enough
- Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?
- when it was done
- After all, the Bible says Jesus' first miraculous sign was to make 180 gallons of wine for a party!
- Live Era '87-'93
- There's nothing you can do to me that Castro hasn't already done
- There are worse things than to have a great injustice done to you
- There has to be a better way to make human beings
- Then you could make out every time there's a Jewish holiday!
- The game we play is life, and there are no rules save the ones we make
- There's got to be a way to make it sweeter, a little more like lemon meringue
- They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
- He makes me feel alone just by being there
- I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
- I was never any good at maths at school
- There could still be a reunion of The Band
- for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
- When I stop going there, I will be well.
- The Tale of a Youth who set out to learn what Fear was
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- When there's nothing left to burn, you have to set yourself on fire
- remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
- Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
- I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
- What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
- where there is silence, you are as well
- There's a difference between fear and cowardice. Fear is unavoidable. Cowardice is allowing people, including oneself, to suffer because of what they fear.
- They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
- we'll get there
- There is no such thing as a free lunch
- Are we there yet?
- There is no 'I' in 'team'
- There is no suck, only blow
- There were people on the Titanic who waved away the dessert trolley
- beyond the veil of nothingness there exists a sea of poets, judges all
- There are no atheists in the foxholes
- There is no happy ending
- Seeing your password right there on the screen
- There is despair, Mr. President, in faces you don't see, in the places you don't visit in your shining city
- There is infinite hope, but not for us
- There is a speck of dust in my eye, honestly
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