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• The monkey children were everywhere back then. Their fedoras littered the roads.
• In their Disneyland are there kids just like this?
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Every lousy Kraut beady blue-eyed bastard I see, I just jerk back on my BAR and pump some lead in their face.
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• Run around like chickens with their head cut off
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• When I growl, the sound echoes like thunder all through the valleys and woodlands, and children tremble with fear, and women cover their heads with their aprons, and big men run and hide.
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• the morning snowdrops fall like dew in the sunlight and fill my heart with their icy cold and all i can think about is you
• You couldn't save me back then. I will save you now. Trust me, take my hand.
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• Where do memories go to sharpen their daggers?
• I don't mind it when authors take their time
• I who put thorns on the briars and gave insects their sting
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• Greeks like their women armless
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• girls who like to see their grandmother fight
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• 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.
• flowers come from the ground, where their souls are trapped all winter
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• candle smoke and christmas spice leapt up their noses like cardamom cats
• Where did I put those darn tomatoes?
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• Where their moth dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• They just kind of went away
• Listen, boy. Everyone is their own kind of ninja.
• I used to fly like peter pan, all the children flew when I touched their hands
• dead insects are flipped over on their backs
• You know, some guys just can't hold their arsenic.
• just like the seed, i don't know where to go
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people who no longer want you in their lives
• Things people put up their butts
• I'm going to love you like the undead woe their graves, crave the living.
• Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• one by one their blades will grind to a halt and stand still like a white forest.
• Bands Who Take Their Names from Eighteenth-century English Poetry and Prose
• Butterflies are passive aggressive and put their problems on the shelf, but they're beautiful
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• Details fade, and wishes take their places
• These dead open their bodies to the living like a door
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• "The Americans in their wisdom have taken the heads off the pictures, enlarged them and superimposed them with the heads of animals and then strung them up all over the walls of the interrogation room," he said
• Listen, boy. Everyone is their own kind of nenja.
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
• Boy meets me, boy becomes infatuated with me, boy realizes I take up space, boy runs like hell
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• I realize that just because I like something a lot, it doesn't mean it is of high quality
• Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Paintings bulging out of their frames like the freaked-out spine-damage erections of accident victims
• In the future, hairstyles will be just like they are now
• I liked their early stuff
• Just Like Larry
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• Old men never die, they just spout poetry
• Be a model or just look like one
• They did your portrait
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• Dead in California just feels like lonely somewhere else.
• We like seeing ourselves in the mirror. Circuitry is just the newest reflective material.
• Where Did The Days Go?
• Now that there is no hell, evil folks like you just get reincarnated as McDonald's register jockeys
• Throw your hands (up) in the air, (and) wave them all around like you (just) don't care
• Then the walls started to bleed again and I just KNEW I'd be the one cleaning it up.
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• just like mom used to make
• if you take it too seriously i really will be just talking to myself
• She just stares at us like we're crazy
• i like the treetops, cause they're reaching just like me
• Punks aren't lazy. They just don't got principles.
• And they all just stood and stared
• i've heard that's how they did it in ancient egypt
• Where Did I Come From?
• Where did Archie find the time?
• And then I will just slip away
• Wouldn't it be wonderful if everyone renounced violence forever?
• She kissed me gently, just once, then walked away crying
• Just Like Heaven
• What They Did To the Desert People
• Friendship's just another kind of love
• Just Like Mom
• 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
• Be Yourself, said the buxom blonde. Just Like Everyone Else
• The kids round here look just like shadows, always quiet, holding hands
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• She's the main attraction, I'm just the recording device
• Yeah? Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
• just like the smooth kindness of your eyes
• there are some just can't take life easy
• you just hauntin 'round like a shadow now
• Looks Just Like the Sun
• Just to see where the bullets come from
• Tolkien did not like magic
• They did so because they believed they could.
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• Where did you go? Out. What did you do? Nothing.
• Be different, just like everyone else
• Take Back the Night
• Just wearing black won't take care of that
• Rape committed by women
• I just happen to like apples and I am not afraid of snakes
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
• Just Like Honey
• They're just babies, they don't understand!
• Beautiful things should be left alone lest they become just another thing that we should throw away.
• Bikes need regular service just like cars
• Let's undress just like cross-eyed strangers
• Not Just Like a Pill: Paternal Attachment and Spiritual Development
• So I'm wrestling with the demoness while the priest is trying not to soil his vestments, and Faust is just sitting there like an idiot
• Burning textbooks and then selling them back
• Just Like Snow
• The fire wagons kept coming, the snipers just wouldn't let 'em put it out
• just because they never bothered to really do
• Just Like the Fambly Cat
• a steady diet of coincidences makes it easy to believe they are more than just coincidences
• just like everybody else, we will find a way up.
• I really came to understand that they were just real people who wanted to live real lives and be treated equally as opposed to, for example, wanting to destroy us.
• Crazy Is Just Like Anything Else
• Canada is burning. Nevertheless, the nomads are not mad, they just go somewhere else.
• Take Back Vermont
• how loud to you have to be to put out a housefire with just your voice
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• Buying things just because they have cool packaging
• Aristotle's Lost Library, Medieval Andalusia & Chinese Paper, or How Europe Learned to Learn Again and Why the Renaissance Happened When & Where It Did
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• Did you mean for it to look like this?
• I did not tell him, instead I kept it private like a secret hug
• Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
• Where the heck did those Hobbits come from
• What the Hell Did I Just Read
• Those torpedo bombers didn't do a darn thing did they
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• How did the matrix know what blue looked like?
• I just called to say your brother fucks like a mink
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction
• Just like tomato soup
• You can't tell sleep where to go
• Innocent, just like OJ!
• Just like you
• I just couldn't work like that
• Good thing they were just typewriters
• I just realized that I will not live to see the invention of time machines
• Quick, put your shirt back on before the cop gets here
• just like my father
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• 1,340,666 women just like me
• Words said in anger are, in the end, just words. They only become daggers if you let them.
• The kind who tells you she's bipolar just to make you trust her
• we always knew we'd find someone just like you
• Let's just say it takes a certain amount of consumer zeal.
• if they forget me, I just might disappear
• You won't live longer, it will just feel like it
• Clearly I am just too stupid to take the SAT II's
• Just because I like ballet it doesn't mean I'm a poof

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