Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "Sometimes I wonder if this would actually be practical in our own day. Embroidered rolls of writing that last longer than paper?"

• Sorrier than I ever thought I would be
• The Last Day of Our Acquaintance
• I Would Be Content To Live For But A Day
• Let us be our own pornographers
• we are starving because we are afraid of our own hearts, and there must be another way
• I think people would rather be happy than virtuous
• If the field of AI had tried building footballers rather than chess players, how might it be different today?
• The world would be in much better shape if our leaders were hamsters
• If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak.
• if we are to be lies, we will be lies of our own making
• Such knowledge would do nothing more than haunt your dreams and frustrate your days
• Your last act as a free man should of course be to burn the scrap of paper
• They knew what our pain would be.
• We would rather drown in a sea of tears than alter our beliefs.
• My life may no longer be my own
• Sometimes you have to be your own supervillain
• The days of wonder have come at last
• Where would America be without Canada?
• Life without music would be a mistake
• I wish I knew how it would feel to be free
• Just to see what it would be like
• The Saudis were terrified that someone was going to be a better Muslim than they were
• I have to wonder how this can be a metaphor for my life
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• What I really want is for my troubles to be a puddle on your shoulder
• Sometimes I actually don't mind having the slowest modem in the world
• When I look into her eyes, I no longer care about what the world thinks. This is what it feels like to be alive.
• It can be days before the vision passes and I see the world plainly again.
• If poetry could describe the way you make me feel, poetry would be illegal. Or anyway I might get arrested.
• Governments cannot be trusted with our personal information
• Why would a lapsed Catholic want to be married in the church?
• Thinking of doing something is sometimes just as bad as actually doing it
• Unraveling things you would never be able to say with words.
• It must be the Friday night before Valentine's Day.
• What would existence be like for a child born with no senses?
• Working in a greenhouse is sometimes as much fun as you think it might be.
• we want our film to be beautiful, not realistic
• you make my life a little harder than it has to be
• It is not known why a goose would be used in this manner
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• Never Again Would Birds' Song Be the Same
• Actually, I went to bed this morning, sometime, but we can gloss over that.
• How to be a Jackass in your own home
• A whimper would be fine
• Mind without body
• grumbling dissertation on how everything would be much better if it all were to explode
• Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day
• You know it is going to be a strange day when you wake up dead
• She may be pretty and have more money than me but she doesn't write songs about you.
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• More of a knowledge fetishist than actually knowledgeable
• Hot pursuit
• It's better to be heartbroken than to have a heart not worth breaking
• Be our drone
• My Love Is Higher Than Your Assessment of What My Love Could Be
• If Huey Lewis Isn't Still Cool Then How Can I Be?
• Maybe even this will one day be pleasant to recall
• if i'm right, you'll be here to read this any day now
• Would you take your shoes back now, i think I know what it is like to be you.
• Your noise would not be missed here.
• It must be nice, having people in your life that you actually want to spend time with
• One Day I Will Be The Summer
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• Why don't you just rip my heart out, it would be quicker and less painful
• We knew there would be kissing, and breasts
• It is never too late to be what you would have been
• That would be me
• It's better to be alone than to wish you were
• That I Would Be Good
• The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
• Sometimes I want to be an object of desire
• Why Star Trek: Series V would be a bad thing
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• It will be a hot day and these two ice cubes. We will melt, become one.
• It could be the last time you see me alive
• eternity would be boring
• I set the alarm clock anyway, knowing I would be up all night
• Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist
• Maybe when we drown the fish will be our friends
• What can be better than that?
• If the earth won't be still, than I will.
• people who were not to be trifled with; people who would dance, and had no notion of walking
• I never thought it would be like this
• the last shall be first and the first shall be last
• the world will be remade in our image
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• You do realise that this is going to be our lives for the next ten years?
• The cigarette between your fingers seems to be burning slower than normal.
• Be your own fiction. After that, the story almost writes itself.
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• This would be so dirty if we weren't all professionals
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1985
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• he thought it would be great fun to conquer the world
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• I figured things would be okay once the werewolf started to cry
• If anything were different, everything would be different
• Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil -- for tonight I have broken my own heart, and my soul is too empty to be afraid.
• The second chance you give could be your last
• it would be hilarious if only
• We Regret to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
• If we classified ducks as monsters, well, that would be pretty accurate.
• If you were a vegetable, what kind of vegetable would you be? (registry)
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1795
• what would it take to be serene again?
• It would be a less interesting world if we all walked and skipped alike, and never fell from bicycles.
• Open source cars would be doing 200 mpg by now
• To thine own self be true
• If everyone had a flower instead of a gun, there would be no more war
• Be a girl for a day
• Sometimes, all you can be is a friend
• The vanity of a woman demands that a man be more than a happy husband
• Statements that would be shocking to people living in 1975
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
• Expecting your wedding to be the happiest day of your life
• Sometimes friendships were meant to be destroyed
• Why wiring your own phone line might not be a good idea
• Sometimes it's hard to be good
• This must be the night when I remember how to fly, when the breeze catches my weight at last
• Valentine's Day shouldn't be a chore
• Be something... be anything other than this
• In a world of blind people, c would be the speed of sound
• If language were liquid, it would be rushing in
• It is not our noise at all, but we are lucky to be listening
• AI should be our top priority.
• Choose your next witticism carefully Mr. Bond; it may be your last
• So You Want to Be a Rock and Roll Star
• Might be like leftovers. Would not taste the same, however sweet.
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• You meant for this node to be read by me, and I would like to respond
• The Filesystem That Would Be King
• That'll Be the Day
• throw away words we catch in cages where our hearts should be
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• Information cannot be owned
• The Ten Commandments revised
• Our Band Could Be Your Life
• If I had called you, would you still be dead?
• Be your own man
• Which is not to be found in our obituaries
• If you're not smart enough to figure this out on your own, you shouldn't be doing it
• If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal
• If not voting could change the system it would be illegal
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• The best kind of bartender
• If you were a perfume, your name would be "Butterflies"
• If not for bras there would be far too little between men and breasts.
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
• she's the reason the dust i finally leave will be better than the dust i came from
• Rebeca Martinez
• play dumb
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• It is far better to be bored by somebody else than to be bored by oneself.
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• It's better to be lonely than to be with inferior people
• Every day, in every way, I strive to be a danger to myself and others
• Why I sometimes think I must be insane
• Be nice to smokers: any cigarette can be their last
• It's better to be solitary than with incompatible people
• Sometimes I am embarrassed to be Christian
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• there will be a last
• Things I would be interested in seeing used in a literary context
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• The next time they would come, I would not be here.
• 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.
• The life you're fucking with may not be your own
• My subconscious is much smarter than I will ever be
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.

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