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• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• 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.
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• I had names for all of those places, but I can't remember them
• he can find a cure for us, if we help him
• 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
• Hard disk vibrations and how you can stop 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.
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• Can God create a boulder so large He can't have anal sex with it?
• Men can download naked women. Women can't download men worshipping them. Ha ha!
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• The promise of life. This he stole from himself as well.
• The Old Man's Comforts and How He Gained Them
• GpBCT: proof that Bob wins on a countable union of sets if he's guaranteed a win on each one of them
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• "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
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• God can create a stone so heavy even he can't lift it
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• Some people can just hold onto the things that really matter to them
• Bringing them back from the dead
• If you can't beat them, join them
• People tell us who they are, but we ignore it, because we want them to be who we want them to be.
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• steal out the eyes from the angels and set them as stars
• No one can know what you want unless you tell them
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• If I can stop one heart from breaking
• And the power of the Great Peace drove the evil from them
• Bizmillah! We'll have to let them go
• Why do we treat them so well?
• She doesn't know what he sees, but sometimes it makes his face beautiful
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• The day I killed everyone's joy. Well, one of them.
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• Do your wings make a sound? Sometimes I swear I can hear them
• Days go by like sweet summer breeze; I don't know I... can't feel them anymore
• Beautiful words are nonsense if you can't hear how you're saying them.
• When the principal laughs so hard he can't suspend you
• the summer can do little more than feed itself
• he looks hurt from behind that eye patch, the choker, the bare chest
• 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
• he did not look back. he walked slowly. he might stop at any time.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• He may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he is our son-of-a-bitch
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• But the fire doesn't sing to them anymore
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• He's not cute, as in good looking, but he's got a cute psychosis
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• "You want to know the only thing you can assume about a broken down old man? It's that he's a survivor."
• two people can keep a secret if one of them is dead
• The "He can't tell the difference" beer commercial
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• What they don't know can't hurt them
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• 'twas the telltale tink-tock of marionettes, he felt certain, that jingle-jangled from behind her shower curtain
• I can't operate on this boy; he is my son
• If you can't help it, fuck it!
• How can I help but use your eyes as a means for self-asphyxiation?
• If he's late, you can always start without him
• You cannot stop the waves, but you can learn to surf
• You can run, but you can't hide
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• He cries for me, all these years later. He'll never stop 'til I join him in the grave.
• I don't know if these are good flowers or bad flowers, but I picked them for you
• He speaks so well!
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• judge a captain not by his shipwrecks, but by whether or not he blames the sea
• These people from the other village smell wrong! Kill them!
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• She is a night of dark trees, but he who is not afraid of her darkness will find banks full of roses under her cypresses
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• 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.
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• retracing unknown lines in the dark so I can follow them blindly
• we can take them
• I can hang out with guys without fucking them!
• Dr Pepper imitations
• Walls so thin, I can almost hear them breathing
• The city. So many lights you can actually pretend one of them's shining on you.
• Testing wild plants to see if you can eat them
• "Takeoff?" he said. "Can we handle that much torque?"
• Jobs that can drive you to the poorhouse, and how to avoid them
• Now he can be loved. Now he is no more.
• No matter how wise an old sheep, he can't teach a fish how to polevault
• I can't operate this robot; he is my son
• He can
• When will you humans learn that your "feelings" (as you so call them) can stand in the way of big cash payoffs?
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• sometimes things that look scary can be so beautiful, if you give them a chance
• Memories aren't only in your head if you can't walk down a road without having them.
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• Fuck them all but the six
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• You can bear arms, but you can't bare breasts
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• buildings so tall you can't even see the tops of them
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• He makes me feel alone just by being there
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• Amakuni once drew an old sword of his from a box, suddenly overjoyed by something he had cast aside.
• what he carried from here to Okinawa
• His memory perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the street.
• He not busy being born is busy dying
• To withhold forgiveness from a person is like drinking poison and waiting for them to die.
• Spikey the Werm may be a Werm, but he's got quite an imagination nonetheless!
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• When Chopin finished a piece he stopped writing it
• In a quiet grove of pines under a frosty sky, he helped her out of the sack. She wore severe white hospital pajamas and was beautiful.
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• She is lobbing rainbows at me from across the room and I am swallowing them like fear.
• He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• Words are how we see you. Use them well.
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Hands cupped into a half circle, he bent foward to help her catch a light
• he doesn't know, but her eyes widen too far
• Cryonic companies who will freeze you if you pay them
• but the worm ended up killing them too
• You can't stop thinking of her: this is how you explained it, a proof of your being in love.
• Keeping secrets from your children may harm them
• Why is it bad to make gays bishops, but okay to kill them?
• He smiles but it's not real.
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• But I've said it before and I'll say it again: kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• i remember reading this but i can't remember if i liked it or not
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• like you're blind but still can see
• I'm not sick but I'm not well
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• Redemption is very much like vengeance. Redemption has more valor, and is more satisfying if you obtain it. But if you chase it blindly you can waste yourself completely.
• but with words we can create anything
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• stop being so English
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• we can give up, but the world never will
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• Help wanted. No previous experience necessary. Martyrdom not required but highly suggested.
• Santa's festive fear mongering wasn't going as well as he'd hoped, but the other Santa and I were enjoying the gingerbread.
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• Imagine if you achieved a higher state of being from the Weather Channel
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• My finger can point to the moon, but my finger is not the moon. You don't have to become my finger, nor do you have to worship my finger. You have to forget my finger, and look at where it is pointing.
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• The day we were married the leftover doves from his days of being a magician hummed little love songs in the attic
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?
• The thing is, I love sex, but I sort of hate my brother

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