Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I didn't know then it was the beginning of something. If I had, I would have paid more attention"

• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Would I have hid myself away if I had known I'd never be found?
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• For one thing, he was sure his granny would never have used smack.
• She was watching me and I didn’t know it.
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• How many lives could have been saved had we just said "Please" more often?
• that starfish that you threw back in the sea was already dead and the parent seagull had nothing to take to the newly hatched chicks who then starved
• a thousand more names I would have called you. One more enormous thing.
• 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 didn't know such things when I was young
• What if I had never met you? How much the poorer would my life have been.
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• The more you promote something, the less of it you have
• The girl didn't know if she was loved until he said yes.
• She didn't know what outside was anymore.
• I would a thousand times rather have had a simple cheap sandwich with a friend
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• If we had a more developed tailbone, would we wag our tail?
• I would have leapt at the innuendo you had strewn at my feet.
• I didn't ask if the glass was half full or half empty. I've always had enough to drink.
• 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.
• If you didn't have free will, would you know it?
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• If it had been able to, the light would have smiled
• I would have attempted to draw her if she had stayed that way.
• Would you like to know more?
• I didn't want to know where I was conceived
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• if I had known then what I know now
• if music was a woman you would have a mistress
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• I would have cooled this if you had written it
• All the terrible disadvantages an invisible man would have in the world
• Why would he want a writer when he could have a dancer?
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• I would have tried, but Charlotte kept Charlotte in the world of Charlotte and she barely heard me
• Why I was convinced I would die young
• You, standing
• If it were a snake, it would have bit me
• If you don't have anything nice to say, then downvote the shit out of it and pray the fucker gets nuked
• Bernie would have won "ANY BREAKFAST BAGEL SANDWICH" at McDonald's
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• I would kiss you, but I don't know how to kiss
• I didn't want to know that
• What would get you to contribute even more E2 content? (e2poll)
• It's better to regret something you HAVE done
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• I would like to have emotions
• you have five minutes to admire the beauty in everything and then you die
• I have failed to become something recognizable
• 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
• How to know if something is worth doing
• Things grow, no matter how much attention they’re paid
• If I didn't ask, I'd never know (how much you hate me)
• More than he was willing to give
• I was a young boy that had big plans
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• If there were more people like you, there would be more people
• Keep your mouth shut until you have changed something
• Was it something I said?
• I think I was watching the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
• Would ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years
• Is this what I have been seeking? Or is it an echo, a remnant, a sign that I was wrong?
• I would've taken an axe to it, but I'm pretty sure the dryad would have pulverized me
• This was the shinest golden dollar I would ever see in my life and I was not about to tarnish it.
• anyone would know that rain, so deep it flows in our veins
• In the Beginning was the Command Line
• i didn't write this, but i wish i had
• You had to pretend success was fucked
• She was feminine in the most displaced sense I had ever seen, a known quality refracted through stained glass windows.
• For Once, Then, Something
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• You're not alive until you have something to lose
• When a boy comes over, always have something baking
• Things that would have seemed unbelievable about 11 years ago
• Americans have more than 40 words for boobies
• Bernie would have won
• Mother and I Would Like to Know
• I wish I had something worth hiding
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• It takes more than good memory to have good memories
• She told me I looked like a Henry, and this is how she would know me
• know more darkness
• Could you be any more of a poseur? 'Changes' was a best-of!
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• Sex and death have both spat me out like spoiled milk for the same reason. I was not afraid.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• The good crew will know what its captain would do
• We have had enough of your beige
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• Signs that you or someone you know may have a problem with drugs or alcohol
• It was a reasonable chat, I let him have it alone
• What I would do If I knew what was good for me
• Everything you wanted to know about hamsters, and then some!
• When I was young Time had no wings
• I have never felt more alive
• you would have been
• At least I have something to show for my awkward days
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• 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
• By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
• if you have love in your heart, then you are my friend
• What I Didn't Learn in Church Last Sunday (and wish I had)
• I Didn't Know
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• We know we have fallen because we know who we are
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• I have no proof that he would ever want to kiss or destroy me.
• Attention has been paid
• bringing me back to when less was worth more
• I felt I was part of something, like a voice in a crowd or an island in a sea
• What pornos would have us believe
• I don't have a soul. But something still hurts.
• If you don't know how to make a mu, you have no business measuring quantities that small.
• Nobody paid any attention until white people started to speak out
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• I knocked on the massive door, and came one step closer to knowing what I didn't know before.
• Even the tides have more friends than you
• Something everyone has done but nobody knows what to call it
• How would you know? And how could you ever know?
• I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
• I didn't love him until I feared I would lose him. One does not love breathing.
• I was once young and had a home
• and then, one morning, I realised I had been an adult for a while
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• "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
• You know the little things about me that would sing in the silence
• Without tears, the soul would never know a rainbow
• I Know More About Nancy Sinatra
• People wouldn't fall in love so often if it were more clearly marked
• If she didn't love you she would kill you
• The "How many partners have you had" question
• I was the worst lay you ever had
• If you had to invent a language with no more than one hundred words
• We're flawed because we want so much more. We're ruined because we get these things and wish for what we had.
• I have more stories about trains for you
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• I have dreadlocks and I don't know where the pot is
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• it was ok back then
• I have been alone while I was with many girls
• I have to firmly hold onto a belief that everyone in the world has shed tears over something beautiful
• Is There Something About Bangkok I Should Maybe Know About?
• I still miss you, now and then. You'll never know.
• Don Quixote had his windmills, I have my helicopters
• Conrad wants to know what I have been dreaming. This might get complicated.
• It was one of the worst things I have ever done
• The people we have met in the last 5 years, & will we remember them in 10 more
• Cookies have more calories than TNT
• I would have killed for a sexual thought
• Would you tell me if it was true?
• Friend, you have a lot to learn if you think loving me would be a bad idea.
• I woke up searching for something that I didn't find
• Grammatical and syntactic puzzles
• I had to call my father this evening and tell him I was dying.
• And then wings sprouted from the space between my shoulders where my wings had once been
• A girl I know had her jaw wired shut, and she vomited.
• You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
• Something that may have changed my life...

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