Findings:
- There, in that wordless world surrounded by thick ice, I eventually lost all my strength. Bit by bit, bit by bit.
- The universe was cold and dead and all the best aspects of humanity and its appreciation of the world were stored in electronic boxes
- For every rich man who tries to leave this world for a better one with his fancy tomb surrounded by mourners, there are many more who perish alone in the cold, forgotten by all but God.
- It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
- There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
- I went to Voodoo Donuts and all I got was this lousy concussion
- like all the world is beautiful at once
- There was a time before
- It was fall, and fall does strange things to us all
- Madmen have a world all their own
- There was a rose that faded young
- The total sum of all things would be zero if it was not for love
- Where was her angel all those times the sky clouded over
- There was a man and a woman
- There is magic in this world
- All you ever did was let it happen
- It was all whirlwind, heat, and flash
- "All these years," he said, "I've been opening the window and making love to the world."
- There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
- There was this one great night at Alice's house,
- Long day, all I wanted was a cup of tea
- It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
- 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.
- the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
- There are places in this world where mundane, forgotten things have learned to weave their own magic
- There was no one waiting for me...
- There once was a man from St. Paul
- Freud was wrong. Freud is dead. That is all.
- Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
- Of all the dorm rooms in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
- the world is big enough for all of us. it has to be.
- All the Diamonds in the World
- born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
- we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
- All that was left of her was a damp handkerchief
- There was a young lady of Riga
- I remember, there was one
- Into the World There Came a Soul Named Ida
- There is neither mastery nor slavery except as it exists in the attitude of the soul toward the world
- can it be that it was all so simple then
- All I could remember in the morning is that maybe there were wishing hands involved
- One hour there was sunlight
- There are no next lives
- There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
- I was there
- Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
- There Once Was a Farmer
- He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
- There is evil in the world
- Before inertia, there was impetus
- The more versions there are, the truer it is.
- There was a baby in China
- I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
- If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
- it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
- Wondered what the point of all of that was
- I wish to fail continuously in this and all matters
- All Around the World or The Myth of Fingerprints
- I was Christian and all I got was this lousy painting
- The world is all that is the case
- I Fell Out of School, and All I Found Was This Necklace
- The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
- And though it was snowing outside, all within were warm.
- There is plenty of room for all God's creatures
- more sure of all I thought was true
- She always was all tea and oranges that came all the way from China
- I Kissed "Weird Al" Yankovic and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt
- there is no weight that can bury us beneath the ghost of all my guilt
- I turned Quizro into a Quiet Riot CD, and all I got was this jar of lemon-flavoured pickles.
- Indifferent to all the treasures of the world
- there is a level in the world beyond the physical
- All these worlds are yours except Europa. Attempt no landings there.
- There once was a chicken named Alice
- I spent one year in love and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt.
- There was a land where lived no violets
- Was it ever there?
- I felt as calm as the day outside. My footsteps were certain below the neutral sky. I wished there were someone watching.
- So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
- They devour the frayed edges of the world, and all we hear is chitinous clicking from the darkness
- If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
- There Was a Man of Double Deed
- There is Nowhere Left to Go When You're The Handsomest Man in the World
- So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
- Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
- venomous lizards
- there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
- No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
- There was a cold day
- I worked at summer camp, and all I got was this lousy case of gangrene
- There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
- Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
- Before you, there was me
- There was a man who lived a life of fire
- Was There a Time
- Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
- Unfortunately, there was no applause
- A knock there was upon the door
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- There Was No Leak
- In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
- Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
- Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
- There are 74 genuinely good people left in the world, and most of them are a painful bore.
- There Was A Friend
- and there was this girl
- Children are the same all around the world
- Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
- Progress is in the reach of all who wish to make it
- Long Haired Preachers
- There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.
- I set my sister up with her husband, and all I got was this great dress and a trip to Hawaii
- I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
- By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever here
- I never even went to Las Vegas, and all I got was this lousy t-shirt
- She was pain and pleasure all at once, wrapped up in needles and Ramones T-shirts
- An open letter to all the lousy fathers out there
- May the world be a better place when I wake up
- All it said was clump and scratch, and it only said those very late at night.
- All he left her was alone
- By evening I will have returned all traces that I was ever here
- I Dropped Out of School, and All I Got Was This Necklace
- All I wanted was a Pepsi
- all I ever learned from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
- She was buttery. She was asking for it. She was delicious. Let's all give in.
- If there's hell below we're all going to go
- It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
- When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him
- I Wish All U.S. Americans Had Maps
- All the world's a stage
- Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
- You couldn't make me give it up to cheapening words for all the empathy and adulation in the world
- some say he was never here at all
- all it cost him was a Penny
- He was hard in all the wrong places
- By morning I will have erased all traces that I was ever a bear
- there isn't another side. it's all right here.
- show me what the world is all about
- There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
- it's there for all to see, and yet some people never see it
- John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
- there is a place where the dead live. it is in us. it is all around us. it is more than we can understand.
- All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
- It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
- I remember when all this was trees
- There was an old lady
- How much information is there in the World?
- There was a time when I was a better person
- There was once a Man
- I went to Atlanta and all I got was this lousy pile of junk
- It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
- Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
- All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
- Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
- Where's the kaboom?
- There was a man with tongue of wood
- Church of All Worlds
- There is some goodness left in the World
- If God is good, why is there so much suffering in the world?
- No shit, there I was
- we are already dead. this is all there is.
- He was confirming to himself that they were laughing with him after all
- Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
- The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
- There Was a Child Went Forth
- Go then. There are other worlds than these.
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- There was a moment of drunken silence
- There once was a girl named Irene
- Some days there are so many words I need all three notebooks
- There is nothing left for me there, except for all that I left behind
- I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
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