Findings:
- The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
- Some things exist whether you believe in them or not
- judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
- My soul is in a million pieces. I tried to collect most of them, but some are missing, and the ones I have don't fit together anymore. Feel free to take a piece or two.
- Some things are True whether you believe in them or not
- 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 don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
- Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
- Monsters of our own longings
- Also, when I am angry, my eyes flash fire, whether I growl or not.
- Or he'll just kick me in the face and scream abstract noises and dance around outside in his underwear and have sex with the neighbor's dog and try to fly by jumping off the toilet
- I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
- She is lobbing rainbows at me from across the room and I am swallowing them like fear.
- I am the Monster
- Music that is either by the Sonic Youth or by some band that is ripping off the Sonic Youth, but you can't tell which
- you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
- Am I insane, or is it just wishful thinking?
- Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
- 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 Birth of Merlin, or, The Childe Hath Found His Father
- Love poem from the monsters under my bed
- It didn't matter what star it came from, just the familiar warmth of the sunlight on his face
- Could you spare some change or maybe just a smile?
- Just Add Monsters
- The bastards hung me in the spring of '25, but I am still alive.
- I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
- Some Kind of Monster
- 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.
- Listen to me, because I am in the soapbox. This is the voice of the soapbox. I am calling to you. Do you hear the sounds of my soaply siren song? My syntactically sweet strumming along to sequential sequestrations of symmetrically snakey st
- Some people can just hold onto the things that really matter to them
- I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
- I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
- 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
- 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 won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
- Just some more jokes from the Necronomicon
- Slay them all. God will know his own.
- Some foods, I am convinced, are packaged only for families of 3 or more and bulimics
- Whether you take a doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.
- From the Earth to the Moon: 19: A Monster Meeting
- I'm not a monster, Tom. Well, technically I am. I guess I am.
- I am just going outside and may be some time.
- born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
- I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
- I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
- Escape from the Planet of The Robot Monsters
- I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
- Monster from Green Hell
- The Lord of the Rings 1/2: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Middle-earth But Were Afraid to Produce
- I am phone posting from a gazebo outside of a library while using their WiFi in the rain
- I am an adventurer not by choice, but by fate
- I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
- but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
- Yes! I am a long way from home.
- I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
- I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
- Man is but the imprint of his native landscape
- I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
- He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
- because I am lazy and enjoy staring blankly into space (which is also the space where novels come from)
- I am afraid to write tonight, but I must.
- i am both removed from it, and a part of it
- not running from, but going to
- What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death
- I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
- It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
- The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
- the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
- Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
- The drunker I am, the better I am at pool. Or is that the other way around?
- As I am. As I am. All or not at all.
- Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
- I thought I had some great insight into human nature, but I didn't
- I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
- I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
- All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
- i just want to know who i am
- I will make him promises, but not ones I am afraid to break
- I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
- You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
- I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
- But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
- Some things are definite. We will all die, but there is rain.
- People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
- Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
- Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
- Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
- Why I am going to pretend I am a girl online from now on
- I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
- Surrounded by people, I forget that I am one of them
- I Am the Assuminator, and I Have Just Assumed
- She's a Late Spring Storm and I am Begging to Drown in the Downpour
- I am not confident enough to refrain from responding
- i carry a deep sadness of the past, perhaps always. but i am here for the present and the future. i am here for you.
- Am I or am I not a corporate slave?
- I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
- i am just a simple buddhist monk
- All bastards are bastards, but some bastards is bastards
- Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
- But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
- my love in your garden grows, but let's pretend it's just a rose
- But I have seen the sun just once
- Fuck them all but the six
- I like electronic music, but I am not a raver.
- Reasons why I am ecstatic to be alive right now
- 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.
- I don't want to be a weeping mass of emotion, but I am
- There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
- but the worm ended up killing them too
- For to lose I could accept but to surrender I just wept
- This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
- Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
- But beauteous fields lie just before me
- In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
- Am I in love or still on crack?
- I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
- Ack! Do not cook this! I am just noding this in a state of shock!
- I was shaking, but not from the cold
- Zephronias is unfriendly to new noders, like, sometimes but not always. Depends on several astronomical variables
- Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
- All gods but your own
- i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
- I just happen to like apples and I am not afraid of snakes
- at the moment i have forgotten if i am abraham lincoln or captain ahab - nonetheless i am an important figure in u.s. history
- I am attracted to gay men, famous actors, and men who live in different time zones or are already taken. It's safer that way.
- i know you are but what am i
- I am many things, but I am not that strong
- I am nothing but my sins
- 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.
- I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
- I am but a moth before your flame
- So runs my dream; but what am I?
- I am the question. Unanswered. Demanding attention
- I am Abraham Lincoln, come back from the dead to clone dinosaurs and bring the war to the Congo
- She's not the snake, I am. She's just the apple.
- as you get older, a lot falls away. but i am not here to tell you not to worry. i am here to give you tools.
- Often I feel like I am just shouting my observations into a raging storm and no one hears
- I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
- Not just Everything, but INFINITE TURBO EVERYTHING HAPPY FISH
- The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
- History is not just for the past, but for the future
- Look, I don't mean to be an asshole or anything, but...
- Poetry you found that you wrote when you were ten but secretly still like
- Good from far, but far from good
- i am just slowly accumulating ghosts
- Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
- Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
- I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
- The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
- This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
- If I am doomed to sweat my ass off in my own apartment, I feel better if I'm blasting music
- With or Without You... but I prefer the latter
- It's 5:30 am. Do you know where my sleep is?
- She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
- It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
- It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
- He stretched out his arms but she was not there
- And yet, when the warm breeze of spring greets my face and the sunlight does not make me shield my eyes, I know I am not alone.
- I am capable of poetic language, but not always of poetry
- she doesn't write, doesn't tell you stories, but somehow it's her words that spring to mind at those crucial, terrifying moments, and for that you are eternally grateful
- I know it's boring to go on about it, it bores me to sleep, but what the hell, why doesn't it fade
- I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me
- 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.
- We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
- Friends and lovers, but sometimes just lovers
- They were looking for God but found religion instead
- Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
- Hot pursuit
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