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• I don't remember what life was like when I was seven. I like the taste of air. What should I do?
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• 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.
• Fun for 2 years as a little kid, school for 16 or 20 years, then work until you die.
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
• if I was doing it for compliments I would have stopped a lot sooner
• This book was stolen from the Harvard College Library. It was later recovered. The thief was sentenced to two years at hard labor.
• When you have a trip planned, but don't go, you need to cancel your reservations
• When I was ten years old
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• DJuxtaposition vs. Gamestop : Or how I learned to let go of the PS2 and start loving the DC
• Would ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• It was 30 years ago today, Miyamoto taught the kids to play... (e2poll)
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• For future reference, when in eternity or insanity; dreams I would like to have
• So many people have come and gone, their faces fade as the years go by
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• socketes matures during 4 14 years. - reflections upon an obscure Dadaist genius in our midst; or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the troll.
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• The people we have met in the last 5 years, & will we remember them in 10 more
• I have been orbiting this planet for thirty-seven years, and am just now starting to experience reentry (document)
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• The Seven Years Campaign
• Who needs another person when you have yourself?
• 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 I would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn't been for you meddling kids!
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• How to get Apache to tell your visitors when files have moved or been deleted
• The Seven Year Itch
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• When living we have need of Death
• It was the year 2000. Nobody knew what was coming.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• somehow I felt hopeful, as if I have finally found a ragtag army of fellow fighters, none of whom cared what socks I was wearing
• If I had the money I would get lost. God knows I have the time.
• When you know things are just meant to be
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• You have much to learn, Grasshopper
• Seven Years in Tibet
• We Have Fed You All A Thousand Years
• Why couldn't it have been an action picture that had just started?
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
• When you move here we will have plenty of time to have fun together
• Who needs genetic cloning when we have The Gap?
• No human artists have appeared in the Top 40 music chart for the past 5 years
• Stoned music memories
• blondes have more fun
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• In years past I have not enjoyed Christmas time
• After years of research, I have discovered a transcendentally delectable dessert
• Your radical ideas about softlinking a node with a title saying that the writer's radical ideas about this topic have already occurred to others have, in fact, already occurred to others
• Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• 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
• I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
• If you budget one more year for this behaviour, it will certainly be the last year of your life
• I didn't know such things when I was young
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• I wonder when I learned to smile when I was being hurt
• When I was a kid, I wanted to get tuberculosis
• Seven Year Old Porridge
• It was a start
• the seven hills of Rome
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• seven years for one afternoon of blissful transgression
• That Was The Year That Was
• Stereotypes have to start somewhere
• it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
• What kind of year have YOU had?
• When that cow would walk it was like she was dancing
• I would have liked thunder when she left
• Signs that you or someone you know may have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• The rock under my foot that told me I was real when I was an adult
• Who needs love when you can have death?
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
• I have started a box
• How Could You Want Him (When You Know You Could Have Me)?
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college.
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• Great Truths About Life That Children Have Learned
• Books I have bought for next year
• Wedding invitations for people who have been divorced for years
• i am a seedling. i don't even understand how much i have yet to learn.
• Friend, you have a lot to learn if you think loving me would be a bad idea.
• Names I have acquired over the years
• I wish when I closed a book I could set it on the shelf and know it was really over
• A day in the life of an Alzheimer's wife or how it all started with a missing spatula
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• You don't even know the meaning of the word committed. I'm Andy Kaufman, motherfucker. I will die on this hill I made, in this battle I started, for this prize I already own.
• If you could reset your life back 10 years, would you?
• when life was kind and we were two young wide-eyed believers
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• When we was fat ( ... or, Lord Gym)
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• Foam on the tide is no more or less real than the sea, it simply is, was, will be
• Seven Years' War
• where was your heart when we needed it most?
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• Seven Years Old, in the YMCA Pool
• Seven Years
• Looks like 1984 was only n years off
• Twelve years dungeon. All of you. Dungeon. Seven years. No trials.
• A broken tower: seven years of lonely luck
• The cult leader poured himself a drink and started on about his plans, and I wondered how the priest was getting on
• This essay was due a year ago
• 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.
• We told you when you were hired that you would have to work on Saturday
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• My entire life I have been composing my death poem
• everything I need to know about life I learned from juggling
• A thousand years from now, we should have coffee and tell stories while the world disintegrates
• it was years before they met again, by chance
• Last year was always better
• I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
• Why almost every node was written in the year 2000
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• If the only tool you have is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail
• Though I may not have lived a virtuous life, at least I can say I've lived
• Have fun torturing your fellow man
• I have to go to the bathroom
• Please sir, may I have some more?
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died
• Though you may have no knees, you'll need kneel to nobody!
• If we catapulted outlaws, only pawn shops would have guns
• you would have been
• All of us have looked up to an older kid at some point
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• War is only fun on screen
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• Something that may have changed my life...
• When a boy comes over, always have something baking
• The five people you must have in your life at all times
• Laugh when you have been listening well
• The Weddings I have Performed, or Why God is Gonna Kill Me
• Advantages an invisible man would have in the world
• I have never felt more alive
• "Don't die to go to heaven, start in on Doctor Pepper and end up on whiskey!!"
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• Having an S on a transcript rather than a B
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• I sincerely hope you have one of these somewhere in your life.
• I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go
• Art has an actual purpose
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• Motherboards need to have a standard labeling scheme
• Some vampires actually get pissed when you tell them to Have A Nice Day
• You stole what they would have given you
• I have children; therefore I am better than you
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.
• If the only sexual organ you have is a penis then everything looks like a vagina
• Good Luck, Have Fun

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