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• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• My friend is dating someone who likes him far more than he likes her
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• He throws his heart down like a gauntlet
• He probably builds trebuchets still: Satan needs to modernize, like totally!
• his whole life, like a thundercloud, out in front of him
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• 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.
• I kicked the Martian in his otherworldly balls, and he screamed like the solar wind howling through a planetary magnetosphere
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• Perhaps, like orange juice, I will grow to love him.
• I knew enough about him to know his name and what kind of snowball he could make
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• More kissing? More kissing? No one likes kissing this much!
• I am going to rewrite you so that I can still like people.
• like you're blind but still can see
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• 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
• Questions I'd like to ask my father
• I like the way he reads poetry
• sometimes, after an adventure, he likes to sit out there and think
• There is none like unto Him
• Mr. Lunch liked to chase birds. In fact, he was a professional.
• How to approach a developer who may well be working and ask him a question
• Strange man makes permanent visit
• he likes to watch you walk
• evil, like darkness, is not so much an entity unto itself as an absence of its counterpart
• he smokes like a cello plays
• He was like the bottle of Champagne Krug
• Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
• He smokes like a fish and drinks like a chimney
• She wore a bit more makeup than he generally liked
• I mean these words come out of him like the right music
• he can find a cure for us, if we help him
• He Looked Like the Summer
• But can you still cry like a child?
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• I'm the only person who'd ever told him to his face he was beautiful.
• They made the sunrise for people like us just so we have an excuse for why we're still up.
• Even as he watched the sea rise up like anger
• She couldn't imagine that he liked dancing
• Never felt so much like singing the blues
• When he was five, his father made him murder his imaginary friend.
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• Let's shoot Cupid, see how he likes it
• It is safe to say that I'm going to get my payback if he is anything like me.
• he's like someone living in a dream
• He Never Told Me My Eyes Were Like Diamonds
• With him it was always like
• "He" is actually a buxom blonde bisexual sorority girl. The net is like that.
• I was trying to show him my insides, you know. I like to share.
• I did not tell him, instead I kept it private like a secret hug
• The one he murdered once still loves him
• Yeah? Well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
• This guy in the computer lab who looks like he should be a doctor
• He brings me books like flowers
• I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
• because his heart was heavy, closing, like a tired eyelid
• Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.
• Like no place else
• Now that there is no hell, evil folks like you just get reincarnated as McDonald's register jockeys
• "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife as he picked up his hammer and saw
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• Your legs are like threads of cotton, though much thicker, and filled with weevils
• I used to like it, but it makes me sick to the stomach
• I can think of worse things than to die like a dog
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• His mouth tastes like blood and sugar.
• And we killed him and he's dead.
• You can play with my ex-girlfriend, but treat her like the lady that she is.
• Talking like a pirate is fun but annoys people
• i like his madness
• fewer has no opposite like less-more
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• A kind of calm like no other
• The Last Thing He Expected to Happen to Him in Hollywood
• Feeling like you're moving when you're really sitting still
• I'm happy but you don't like me
• Bark Like A Dog
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
• Hot pursuit
• the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks
• Like hating water, but living in the lowlands
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Any man can handle adversity. If you want to test his character, give him power.
• tiny alien ideas sprout in his brain, like baby incisors erupting from his testicles
• Anger, shaped like a man
• Perhaps you would like to meet your evil twin!
• Since his eyes were like perfect packed suitcases
• These rugs will unite this country like no other rugs have before
• A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
• Anarchy is like, bogus, man
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• No damn you, it's nothing like a chess game
• why is the great man great? he keeps on running through a world of his own.
• So I was balls deep in the guy's ass that night when he turns to me and asks for a kiss. Damn. What a fag.
• He who has ears, let him hear
• He loved her so much, he wanted to do her autopsy
• Zip him back up, he sucks.
• I'm good enough, I'm smart enough and doggone it, people like me!
• I like the city, but the city doesn't like me
• You Should Never Have Asked Him About His Job!
• Boys Are Like Dogs: Keep 'Em on a Leash
• not like the shoe and not like the ring but just like the heart
• i am always searching. like a plant, i thirst forever. i cannot get enough of the light.
• Like a Big Dog
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• Looking like a pirate is fun but only having one eye annoys me
• He forgets I am my own fierceness; it's not for him
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• They will love him long after he is gone.
• Lunch, two good men, books, how much I like them
• His name came up like a match on wooden me
• I married him because he was not mean
• Half-sour pickle
• So charmingly heathen, your skin is like a teardrop on a popsicle
• I do not like the radio man.
• Like minded so you must be crazy
• Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned
• He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
• A man, like a twig
• So is this, like, artistic or slutty?
• Questions for those who don't like capitalism
• Snooding like there's no tomorrow
• What it's like to be in love
• No Place Like Home
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• How to do nothing, and still look like a hard worker
• I Like Bananas Because They've Got No Bones
• His mournful lamenting, like smoke on the mountains
• Some nights, alone, he thinks of her, and some nights, alone, she thinks of him
• It is well oiled, you will click into it like a happy cog
• What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, that he should weep for her?
• he gives rest unto him who comes at the eleventh hour
• Take it like a man
• it's like something big is happening right in front of us but we can't see it
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• He speaks so well!
• Zephronias is unfriendly to new noders, like, sometimes but not always. Depends on several astronomical variables
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• There are many things that I would like to say to you but I don't know how
• I killed him today, he who does not exist
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• 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?
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• Like a dog standing on its hind legs, begging for attention.
• But I Like You
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• I don't think I realized what I had gotten myself into, but it seemed like the potential for fun and insanity were there in equal parts
• I never met him. He broke my heart.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• Victor Hugo once got so mad he threw a baseball through a dog
• So he's dressed a little differently and he has a halo-like light above his head.
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• I met him two days ago and now he wants to fly me to Peru
• I think he only loves the world for him.
• He cries for me, all these years later. He'll never stop 'til I join him in the grave.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• War is hell but men like it
• Jesus said, "I love him, for he is my brother." He was talking about everyone.
• Life is like a strange, unpopular restaraunt filled with odd waiters who give you things you never asked for and don't always like.
• Helps like pissing in your pants in cold weather
• Can't imagine why, but I feel like dancing
• If he's late, you can always start without him
• I should ask my barber where he gets his hair cut, then go there and slowly make my way up the chain
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• Your words like warm water, his words like salt
• Of course I refused, afraid of what his hands might feel like
• His voice is like something from a distant age, the voice of the earth itself, the voice of a tree, the voice of a stone.
• She calls him Sugarcane. He calls her Hurricane.
• waiting for his arms to fold like wings around her
• Like there's no tomorrow
• Sparkling like a star in his hand, melting like a snowflake
• I like to imagine that Bond's firing the tank shells out of his mouth
• It's easier to kick a praying man, because he's on his knees already

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