Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I feel like Sparrow is a great examle of how kids this age can be so wise in one moment and yet so stupid about their own goals"

• How long can any one heart be so confused?
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging. Sort of like some men I know
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• In this moment I'm focused on my own emotions. I don't care about how you feel. I can't.
• Weather can be pretty, yet so damaging.
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• This is how it appears on Wikipedia and they tend to be somewhat anal about grammar, so I'm trusting this is correct
• I'll look at this in a year and wonder how I could have been so stupid
• Dust mop so magic she can not believe how fun it is to clean up after people
• Like minded so you must be crazy
• Collecting cardboard boxes, so one day, you can build a castle
• How can I talk about love when the bacon is burned and the house is an absolute mess and the children are screaming their heads off and I'm going to miss my bus?
• The city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them's shining on you.
• i don't spend a lot of time thinking about what it feels like to be gored by a chainsaw
• it wouldn't be so bad if people like you would have become ghosts too
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I am going to rewrite you so that I can still like people.
• the morning snowdrops fall like dew in the sunlight and fill my heart with their icy cold and all i can think about is you
• On what it is like to be so crazy you can't sleep
• How soft your fields so green can whisper tales of gore
• try to memorize this moment so that years from now I can tell the story of it
• How to tell whether a figure can be drawn in one stroke
• What it's like to be in love
• How to be a jerk and piss off your SO
• It feels so fine to be a fish today
• I didn’t know why it took girls so long to do their makeup until someone showed me how to dismantle the patriarchy with an allen wrench and a roast chicken ballotine.
• How can I pour your wine while my hands shake so?
• How does it feel to be one of the beautiful people?
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• she can scream so loud you'll be looking for your ears on the floor
• I've read books so I know things that sound like they could be true
• he looks a little like you... so i would rather talk about other pretty girls
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• sometimes things that look scary can be so beautiful, if you give them a chance
• thoughts and ideas ought to be convoluted, because the things and people that they represent are equally so
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• Mull around in my mind for a while and you'll find so many treasure troves and so many graveyards that you won't be able to tell the difference between them
• I Am America (And So Can You!)
• Why it is so hard to be yourself
• How can vitality be achieved in figure painting?
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Like hands on a clock tell time without thinking about how long it's been
• How can a thinking, rational adult be an atheist?
• So, you want to be a philosopher
• so that all her children will be adventurers in light
• Will the Atomic Bomb Ever Be Perfected, and If So, What Becomes of Robert Heinlein?
• Until I die there will be sounds. And they will continue following my death. One need not fear about the future of music.
• Can I tell you how much I want to smoke you, like this cigarette?
• How far can we get on one tank of fuel
• I have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• You can learn a lot about a person by how they act at an Airport
• So mote it be
• I'm dreaming it so it must be true
• I beg of you, cradle my head so that I might be with you forever
• The reason we were so excited about Y2K
• Running toward the edge
• how does it feel to be carried out to the trash?
• how can words exist and not be acceptable?
• We wanted to be together, so we worked it out.
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• How to be the first one off the line at a 4-way stop sign
• Hitchhiking used to be so much fun
• Rampant mass consumerism is so evil. Hey, can I have a sip of that Frappucino?
• I'll never be the one to force my parents into an "old age" home
• Waiting for the tear gas in my room to fade away so i can sleep
• people are lazy about explanations so they make rules
• A problem that takes the age of the universe to calculate and can be done on your home computer
• When we kiss I can hear your thoughts, so I would rather we didn't
• Seriously, I can't speak French, so can we just skip to the love-making part?
• Walls so thin, I can almost hear them breathing
• Take these shackles off my feet so I can dance
• It's so quiet, I can hear my cigarette burning.
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• Be a model or just look like one
• So you want to be a waitress
• The best part about you is that you don't even know how great you are
• So you want to be a DJ?
• How to speak about women and be politically incorrect
• How complex can a public toilet be?
• When the aliens attack my workplace, I'm going to be so damn READY
• Mother, did it need to be so high?
• I have no idea what you're talking about, so here's a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.
• So you want to be a star?
• Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• Even simple things that you think are harmless can be dangerous. Like crayons. Like velvet.
• If Huey Lewis Isn't Still Cool Then How Can I Be?
• So you want to be an air traffic controller
• there must be something positive about this; I just can't think of it at the moment
• No one can be unhappy with a fresh box of crayons
• Hot pursuit
• So you want to be a composer
• If you would be so kind
• You're too young to be so old
• So You Wanna Be A Lawyer
• It's so cool to be denied
• How interracial coupling can be eugenic
• No one can be totally logical
• For one moment, it is more important to take in the spectacular than to worry about the pressing business of staying alive.
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• "What *should* we be worried about?"; or how too many cooks make a statistically average soup
• Opening a coke can with one hand
• I'm so sorry my brain works that way
• I sometimes feel like I need every human that I can form a healthy relationship with to survive
• You can only chase a shadow so far
• Bragging about a high IQ is way worse than bragging about having a large dick. The latter can at least be demonstrably used for something and be put to good use.
• my heart, exploding so loudly i can hardly hear myself think
• will my heart be there, where I left it so long ago?
• So rare you can still hear it moo
• How can one ever go home? Bangkok, Tokyo, Chicago, then Cleveland
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• we can push our own buttons like adolescent gods
• I hope they kill me while I'm standing here, so I can die happy.
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• so the hum and silence can co-exist
• retracing unknown lines in the dark so I can follow them blindly
• so be it
• 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!
• Condensed life in a can, like the ones you buy at grocery stores
• So You Want to Be a Wizard
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• Promise me disappointment so I can stop holding out for glory.
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• How can idealism be a bad thing?
• University students can be really stupid
• Making your body race so your mind won't be able to
• So you wanna be a hacker
• To be hoist by one's own petard
• How to drive a friend mad, and still feel good about yourself
• How precious can human life be? There are six billion people on the planet!
• You can tell a lot about a person from their e-mail address
• Why noding about your personal life can be a bad idea
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• You could be so delicious
• So why talk about politics now
• How it feels to be interviewed (when you know the answers)
• Any function can be represented as the sum of an even function and an odd one
• Everyone Thinks the Best about Their Own Children
• There can be only one
• This song is meant to be played so loudly it liquefies your thoughts as you drive at night through abandoned neon dinosaur bones
• How can a thinking, rational adult be a monotheist?
• It's so hard to be unfashionable
• Life is not so much about saying hello as it is about saying goodbye
• How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
• So you want to be evil
• How to be a Jackass in your own home
• I saw it on the Internet so it MUST be true!
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• How Does The Turkey Feel About Thanksgiving
• got to be good looking cause he's so hard to see
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• Dammit, I am so sick of reading about other noders enjoying human companionship
• How can a thinking, rational adult be religious?
• No one can be in two places at once
• So you want to be an editor (document)
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• i assume it is considered odd to be so fond of someone based on text alone
• So you want to be a telephone engineer
• Can we still like each other knowing the worst about each other?
• How can you defend people you know to be guilty?
• There must be something terribly wrong with me. Sometimes I feel like I haven't learned anything.
• How I Feel About Clasical Music
• 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.
• How can a thinking, rational adult be a pandeist?
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• How I feel about exams
• I can't even begin to tell you how I feel about certain things for reasons that you may find difficult to understand
• There's so much to think about. I'm getting distracted.
• how do you feel about miniature lazy susans behind glass
• How a 25-year-old can contract diaper rash in one fun night
• At what age should you talk to your kids about drugs?
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• How can someone worship a dead naked man nailed to a cross as their god?

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