Findings:

• Most of these things I've never seen in real life. Only on screens. Or Elsewhere. I'd die without it.
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• Skim this life but never live
• If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes
• Never, never in my life have I seen such a ridiculous looking instrument of death
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• before the internet when teen had REAL relationship the boy could look at the girl and judge the diameter of her thorax with his feelers and determine whether the mating ritual could commence but NO MORE. evil woman use her computer sorcery
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• I've seen old men crying at their own gravesides
• I've got nifty things to do in September but it's not September yet.
• But life is subjective.
• save and restore function in real life
• Everything vs. Real Life
• I've put in a request for a hooker with a freakishly high IQ but...
• Suspended in wonder at a world I could never understand
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• 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!
• E2 in Real Life (e2poll)
• Here in the dark, nothing is real but time
• I've given up believing in anything but coffee and fishnet stockings
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• I never realized how helpful a visual arts degree could be in fixing sump pumps
• an invitation to be everything you never thought you could be
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• For to lose I could accept but to surrender I just wept
• A quiet life doing one's own work
• Life is not supposed to work like Dawson's Creek
• I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they are real
• true life and a real angel (searching for Eldorado)
• Real life is stranger than Borges
• When your imaginary life is interrupted unapologetically by your real one
• real life test
• I've seen Irish famines with more potatoes than this
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• Usually, if you've seen one bald man in a robe, you've seen 'em all, but most of them aren't burning alive from the inside out
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• A little child could never kill this clean
• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Our Band Could Be Your Life
• I've seen things you people wouldn't believe
• Do the simplest thing that could possibly work
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• I've seen what you call a museum, and it hasn't improved in 10 years
• I've Seen Your Picture
• real life raygun
• The semi-fictional life of every real woman
• Real Life Phaser
• Why IRC is better than Real Life
• A work schedule for my life
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• always morning, but never breakfast
• I told her I could read her mind, but she didn't believe me. I could tell.
• "Excuse me, but could you drop your large backpack somewhere else, please?" A (almost) christmas nodermeet in the East End
• But they're entertaining lies, and in the end, isn't that the real truth?
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• Fifty works of English Literature we could do without
• I'm scared to death of what havoc he could wreak in my life
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• Why I've never been ice skating
• I've Seen It All
• And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music
• I never thought a picture could cause so much pain
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• I've Never Been to Me
• Real Life
• i've worked very hard to become so
• I've never felt so at peace. Like coming home.
• I've worked my ass off and I just want a drink!!!
• Everything vs. Real Life, Part II
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• Real life applications of mathematics
• Posting your life on Everything2 is a dumb idea if people know who you are in real life
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Real Life Dilbert
• The Heisenberg Uncertainty Priniciple in real life
• Why Real Life is better than IRC
• I'm not this cool in real life
• I've never suffered from nostalgia
• The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
• My real life, burst into the proper colors
• Real life trolling
• Dan in Real Life
• Edgar A. Poe's life is reflected in his works.
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• "Real life": absurd liberal myth
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Bug Scientist Real Life CSI
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• I've Never met a nice South African
• It never rains but it pours
• But I have seen the sun just once
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• Any fool with a dick can make a baby but it takes a real man to be a father
• 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.
• I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• A solution to spam (which doesn't work, but nice try)
• Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever
• Effort on behalf of those we love is not work, but prayer disguised
• I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
• Forever blue, but never black
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• He smiles but it's not real.
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• we can give up, but the world never will
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• I don't hate people. Honestly. But the best conversation I've ever had still wasn't as good as the worst catnap I've ever had.
• They think I'm crazy, but I know it's real
• "This sandwich is great, but it could be better if it had tomatoes and also gave me super powers."
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• I’ve stepped in many things but sex is a new one
• why i could never live in the city
• I could never date someone who hasn't committed a major felony
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• bitterly but gracefully finding the strength to let go of your failed relationships and move on with your emotionally damaged life
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• The kinds of friends that books could never be
• If you could reset your life back 10 years, would you?
• My father never made promises he could not keep. My father never promised anything.
• nodeshells that could never be satisfactorily filled
• our website could be your life
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• I've been living my life half asleep
• If I were Twenty-One I would determine, even if I could never be anything else in the world, that I would be a thoroughbred
• Though I may not have lived a virtuous life, at least I can say I've lived
• Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
• I've never
• Ski piss
• A really good sandwich that ideath could make to take to work with her
• But lately, I've been too tired to care
• My life, Jim, and how I've lived it
• I've never asked a heart for rent money
• i've seen earthworms larger than your average snake
• I've Seen Everything
• i've never thought much of formulaic verse anyway
• i've never wanted to die, only things i can never have
• Because I've never been able to make anything beautiful
• Things I've seen done with those Free AOL CDs
• Letters I've written, never meaning to send
• executed but never exposed

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