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• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• Did the Japanese go and sit down and have dinner with Pearl Harbor before they bombed 'em?
• 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.
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• You stole what they would have given you
• People want what they cannot have
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• 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.
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• The songs that break you down and the stories that they tell
• If they're going up to the sun, the stars and the moon, why don't they bring the moon down for us?
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• Living well is only the best revenge if they don't have a fuckable sibling
• They have potential, if they only applied themselves
• you have ghosts. where are they? are they so deep that the light cannot reach them? is there any such place?
• They say the smog is the reason we have such beautiful sunsets
• they threw us all in a trench and stuck a monument on top
• Gaily they went down in the lush field a treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged with a crust of bread into her coat of arms weaving currying the embroidering of silk in summer.
• They Are Them. We are us. Kill Them. All.
• I want them to go out as unseen as they came
• If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• They lead us without speaking. They invite us to walk with them on the irresistible path.
• The FOOLS! They laughed at my theories at the university, but I'll have my revenge! I'll have my REVENGE!
• They have bears in Italy
• i've heard that's how they did it in ancient egypt
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• They Don't Want Me
• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they pour it out
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• they are waiting for us to return to them, beneath and away
• A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have
• they fall for us
• What would aliens think if they talked to an average western human being?
• They have no bones.
• They are angry and they have been lied to
• What Have They Done to the Rain
• What pornos would have us believe
• Guys who don't tell you they have a girlfriend
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• 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.
• The eyes of the dead may not blink, but they have been known to wander
• No one has ever died because they DIDN'T have a toothpick
• Eye contact at a distance
• They did your portrait
• I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
• Those torpedo bombers didn't do a darn thing did they
• the moment when they take possession of you
• some people are so poor, all they have is money
• Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard
• there are people in the world who love you, and they will see that this suffering will not have happened in vain
• If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread
• Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me
• They want me for a focus group!
• They hate us because we're wonderful
• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
• Beings from space: What could they want?
• If they come for us
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• Live Era '87-'93
• They managed to get to the moon despite it
• There is a difference between considering your audience and giving the people what they want.
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• Breaking down a door
• They must have faces
• I have to check and see if they wear panties
• It's a bit tone deaf to ask an agnostic if they want to go to the priest and confess
• They Have a Word for It
• Girls who tell you they have a boyfriend
• Shall I tell you stories of other stars: stars that you love, that deserve your love. Stars that do not disappoint, and disgust, and disgrace your love. Oh, I have hope they exist for your sake!
• They knew what our pain would be.
• Buying things just because they have cool packaging
• They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street
• They could have saved Kevin
• Don't ever lie. If you lie to your friends, they won't trust you, and you'll have nothing, and you'll never be safe.
• Wishfully think they have souls.
• They have a trendy name for every different kind of fucked up.
• The boys did not know it. They were just being beautiful, and I got to watch.
• What They Did to Princess Paragon
• Take it til you make it, break it if you have to, but don't ever fake it.
• We don't have time. Not like they do.
• He tells me that I could have his heart and I want to take it right then, slip it into my pocket and run
• They didn't have the heart
• He's been places they have not.
• they still come to me even though i don't come to them
• Yesterday, I believe I would never have done what I did today.
• What They Did To the Desert People
• remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
• They did so because they believed they could.
• when they take my blood
• They have taken enough
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
• When scientists make mistakes they see what they did wrong and then try again.
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• "Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient."
• from where I stand I can see they have already won
• Stand back from the doors or they might kill you
• They will run away and leave us forlorn and empty
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• They protect us from danger by harming us before we can harm ourselves
• I only leave the door open because I know that no one would dare to come in.
• I would open a door for you
• I want the stars so bright they make me breathless
• Don't trust Elves; they may want to be your friends
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• Terminating a pregnancy due to Down Syndrome
• 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
• Wedding rings and half-born ideas you lose down the toilet. Why do they go?
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• If you want somebody's heart, catch it when they cut it out
• the stars would weep if they knew of our existence
• If they would only choose to hear it
• Horses: do they love us back?
• 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!
• I want to strangle the stars for all they promised me
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Where have my wings gone? They are hidden, embarrassed to be seen.
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• Ernie and Bert are not gay. They're puppets. They don't even have legs.
• 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.
• People who think they have to double-click everything
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• you would have been
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• I would like to have emotions
• I may have cellulite, but I can still put my ankles behind my head
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• The reason dogs have cleaner mouths than us
• If we catapulted outlaws, only pawn shops would have guns
• I don't have a life; Everyone else wants to live my life for me
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• I break myself down
• Nodes your Grandma would have liked
• Why I like my old car that always breaks down
• Advantages an invisible man would have in the world
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• All of us have looked up to an older kid at some point
• Hello, my name is... Would you like to have sex?
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• The US does NOT have Freedom of Speech
• Let it out, break it down
• I want to have your abortion
• I will take one ticket please to whatever you have to say please keep talking
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• If this were in person, I would have kissed her now
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• I still have the skull of the one that tried to bite my leg off
• My brother is still dead... and now I have his car...
• Why I want to have children
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I don't want to risk endangering the cheap, meaningless sex we have
• The Universe intended for us to have biscuits
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• These are the dreams that break us
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• have a penny, leave a penny, need a penny, take a penny
• To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
• These are the only minutes you'll ever have. Take good care of them.
• When you know things are just meant to be
• Girls Just Want to Have Fun
• And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
• Do unto others as you would have others do unto you

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