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• why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
• My life's got rags, my life's got riches. They've all been mixed together for so long it's hard to tell them apart.
• Nah, these random encounters with beautiful strangers won't destroy me at all. But I guess I thought it'd be a good way to die at the time.
• all life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again
• Strangers are unwittingly saving my life in 1000 little ways all day long.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• time lost in life because of waiting
• All the people looking like they've been run through the life sucking machine. Twice.
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• i kissed her one last time, then walked out of her life forever
• 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
• It must be nice, having people in your life that you actually want to spend time with
• The glass is half full when it comes to your life up until this point. The glass is half empty when it comes to everything you've missed out on.
• as time goes to infinity, all truths come out
• 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!
• "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
• When life gives you lemons, suck on them. Seriously, lemons taste awesome.
• Can't speed up, can't slow down - all we can do is follow these damn dogs
• Hand them a straw, and they'll suck the life out of you.
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Just so we’re all clear, it is okay to miss people you no longer want in your life
• I'm waiting for what will make me stand still the rest of my life
• For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three
• 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.
• how life is all about loving and being loved
• I feel the way bank robbers must feel before they go out on that last job that ends up getting them all killed. That is to say, optimistic.
• Waiting for the tear gas in my room to fade away so i can sleep
• The problem with people who think life is inexpressibly beautiful is that they so often try to express it anyway
• The five people you must have in your life at all times
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• Life must be lived forward, but it can only be appreciated sideways
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• Have you ever been so excited about your life that it makes you almost want to cry?
• 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.
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
• Life times
• When your life is defined by a single action, it changes the concept of time.
• Don't try to make the moment last. You can ruin it that way. Just learn to savor it and, when the time comes, learn how to let it go.
• The Life and Times of the Parmesan Goldfish
• Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• Time is nature's way of stopping things from happening all at once
• life is short, life is shit, and soon it will all be over
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• i always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• How much plant life is needed to keep a person alive in a sealed room?
• But life is subjective.
• How do you make a life matter?
• Do Whatever You Want All the Time
• And in time all this will pass
• Waiting for life to begin
• If all you picked up tonight was this node title, it's time you went to a Brit nodermeet
• The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club
• The Most Terrible Time in My Life
• Trying to stomp the life out of false hope
• I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
• you make my life a little harder than it has to be
• life goes on easy for me, most of the time
• Time of Your Life
• the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• We are all extras in some famous person's life.
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• Isn't it about time you grew out of all that juvenile screaming nonsense?
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• Skim this life but never live
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• I'm out; I'm free. Down here the night air is purple. What do I do with it all?
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• through You, all my wasted days receive a new life
• They say time makes things easier but only time will tell
• Life sucks, then you die, then you come back
• Living your whole life with all the doors unlocked
• All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• bitterly but gracefully finding the strength to let go of your failed relationships and move on with your emotionally damaged life
• Every time I see a dead fish that isn't, I think of you. Happiness keeps washing over me like a wave. What do I do with it all?
• On three separate occasions, I gave up my life so others could live
• Watch out! This chair will suck the life force out of you
• It's been a night shift of a life for us all.
• Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
• We've got all this beauty and just enough time to figure out how to destroy it.
• My Life and Hard Times
• The Time of Your Life
• This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time
• We were all waiting to hear those words (and no one ever said them)
• I read my life story twenty times a day
• I must have waited all my life for this
• There's no room in my life for anyone to stay
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck
• 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
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• Zealot: the life and times of Jesus of Nazareth
• The life and times of a fallen angel (category)
• The life and times of grundoon (category)
• A day in the life of an Alzheimer's wife or how it all started with a missing spatula
• the life and times of Pierre Auix
• The Life and Times, part one.
• Mediocre people do exceptional things all the time
• FIRST STAR IN THE GAME OF LIFE: The Life & Times of Hockey Hero Larry Kwong
• The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams
• Up, because the sky has room for us and more than we can ever make
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• Fuck them all but the six
• and when all the stars have fallen one last time and the skies are crumbling into my hands and the sirens are bleeding out on the beaches and the earth fades; you will remain
• The Life and Times of Multivac
• You can walk down a path you've gone down many times with the ghosts of all the people you've ever been.
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• All will be devoured within the jaws of terrible time
• I see you online, all the time
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• Movie grosses adjusted for ticket price inflation
• when my time is in the past, i hope my heart lays in the grass, and feeds another one who lives like it's all just begun
• Another being's life
• In the movie of his life, the part of Keanu Reeves will be played by a block of wood, and the critics will pan it for being too expressive
• We pander to each other because we love each other so much and we'd do anything to keep each other and it's made us sensitive and it's fucking killing us all.
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• they are waiting for us to return to them, beneath and away
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• They are all pretty but fading.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• There is creativity and craft, in all peoples and all times
• Time Destroys All Things
• we've come so far and yet not at all
• As a side effect of the server move, this list isn't gettin cleared automatically, so many people listed aren't actually online. Sorry for the temporary inconvenience.
• Hello lovely fool where have you been all this time.
• 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.
• An American in Tours
• Time flies but aeroplanes crash
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• The hope that life isn't simply what remains after we have locked our childhoods away.
• The greatest limerick of all time
• Comedy Central's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups of all Time
• Not all at once, but in a wave
• all net, nothing but territory
• What I used to be/Will pass away, and then you'll see/That all I want now/Is happiness for you and me
• Waiting for the day all my dreams about myself get tested
• all that time, all those threads, weaving through something that must have been far too confusing to enjoy
• all of them just coming over here and so on
• All right, I'm God now. How do I get out of this mess?
• your dialog and instructions are coiled up tight in every single one of your cells and they're all singing
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• I know that all the cannabis activists would like you to believe differently but
• For the good things in life it is worth being a snob
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• High Life below Stairs
• 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.
• Of all the dorm rooms in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
• Hot pursuit
• Top five Atari 2600 games of all time
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• All Travel is Waiting
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• we're all here to die. but if you think that's all it is, you still have the bag on your head.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• she seems bored with me after all this time
• a great many things are dying very violently all the time
• All Turkish members of al-Qaeda arrested so far grew up in Germany
• we think we're so great. this is all just more history
• You can't please all of the people all of the time
• All will be well again in time
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• we all spend ten years trying to find our voice
• Forgetting his life away
• please keep your feelings inside the vehicle at all times
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• "Why is my mom three thousand miles away?": Life After The E2 End of Summer Denial of School Northwest Gathering
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• So while Faust is busy trying to wipe the blood off his face and Shorty's trying to claw his eyes out, I mosey away and try my hand at storming the castle

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