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• Getting out of a traffic ticket
• watch over me until i can find my way out of this labyrinth in my brain and regain my sanity
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• Welcome to our Modern World, please find yourself a corner.
• You can never get away from yourself
• This terrain is constantly changing, but if you look closely, you can find the patterns
• No one gets out of this life alive
• I am going to try to figure out a way to get into your cunt castle
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• Trying to stomp the life out of false hope
• Racing friends with fragile self esteem, or: A good way to get yourself killed
• if i can just find the perfect way to say it
• spin until you get dizzy, then spin the other way to cancel it out
• An easy way to get out of going to church
• 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.
• Life is not always fair, but you can be
• You find yourself being chased not only by the bad guys, but also by what should be the good guys
• I a man sad, with a linux box, a slow internet connection and friends who can not see the love in me bursting to get out.
• Knock yourself out
• Life gets in the way of words
• when i get out i'll come and find you cause you're my other half i never told you that
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• You can take the mall out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the mall
• Cryonic companies who will freeze you if you get in the way of their plans for world domination
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• we all spend ten years trying to find our voice
• we can give up, but the world never will
• I can slaughter my way through Hell, but I can't kill these feelings for you
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• Sometimes, my paranoia overtakes me and I find myself asking, "IS ONE OF THE E2 EDITORS OUT TO GET ME!?"
• you can't change the world, but you can change the facts
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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.
• Where The Shock Sets In And The Stomach Acid Finds A New Way To Make You Get Sick
• Necromancers really lift your spirits, but the dead can bring you down
• you can close your eyes but not your ears
• Starving in the greenhouse
• Painting the world of the people to come. Absent but in dreams.
• I may dream in technicolor, but I trip the fuck out in old-school black and white
• like you're blind but still can see
• A woman has 30 ways of laughing, but only 1 way in which she cries.
• we are built to hold on, but the world is about letting go
• Can a Nigga Get a Table Dance?
• How precious can human life be? There are six billion people on the planet!
• i can't fit it all in but by god, i will keep trying
• World, take care of me. You don't owe it to me, but I don't know any better.
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• Every Which Way but Loose
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• Can we all just get along?
• bitterly but gracefully finding the strength to let go of your failed relationships and move on with your emotionally damaged life
• I can make a bong out of anything
• The only thing stopping us is the pressure. If your machine can withstand it, we are already on our way.
• Sometimes when I hold a child I can feel my life grow long
• I have to wonder how this can be a metaphor for my life
• This is immensely rewarding when successful, but can be an extremely intensive and difficult thing to develop and practice
• You can, but you may not
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• Not her voice, but the way her voice changes,
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• I don't believe in God or the soul but these machines can make me cry
• I didn't mean to write this, but this is how it came out
• Your heart may be broken, but the world still rotates my dear friend
• You can complain about athlete salaries all you want, but my voicemail is still empty.
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• "Life" appears to be a zero-sum structure, but we're running the numbers again
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• 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.
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• How many ways can you say "ginger"?
• windows where I can look out
• You can teach people truth, but it's harder to teach them to cope with truth.
• in this world there are no equals but some day you will surpass me
• I find evolution to be a woefully inadequate theory until it can explain the following:
• That balanced place where I can sit with words coming out of my fingers
• A crazy ideological teenager who still thinks that clear, free, rational thinking can save the world
• What can I get for you? What do you need?
• I pray to God I can find the other sock
• Can I get MTV from kissing?
• The words no one can find
• Potatoes saved my life they can save yours too
• There Is No Such Thing As Light/There Is No Such Thing As Darkness/This Shadow Is An Illusion/But Illusions Are Still Real/And I Still Must Step Out Of It
• Into the Heart of the Whole :: Anderry Inne, But Not Out Again
• How to assassinate a third world despot with only a butt plug and a litre of raspberry coulis
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• A reddish glow is clearly visible all the way around the horizon, but the moon, alas, remains hidden
• Ghosts can laugh, but they're already dead
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• But life is subjective.
• When you can almost recognize her face, but you can't remember her name
• 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
• You can say the train isn't real but it's still going to sting like a son of a b
• But can a robot love.
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can make me think I deserved it.
• we will tear the world apart until it is nothing but fragments, and meaning will cease
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• you can touch the sun but you can't take it with you
• you can use a lot of words and ideas to try to hide it, but you're always making a choice between love and hate
• you only live once, but your life echoes into eternity
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• 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 am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• Archived E2 FAQ: Source Code (document)
• How many ways can you say "vinegar"?
• Dr Pepper imitations
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• every horse can be tamed by someone. but they don't always live at the same time.
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• Aerosol cans and a lighter can bring wet wood to life
• Why noding about your personal life can be a bad idea
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Having gotten myself into a position where I can have my cake and eat it too, I feel no compulsion to get up from the table
• Though I may not have lived a virtuous life, at least I can say I've lived
• I can hang out with guys without fucking them!
• What can you get for three cents?
• I'm so sorry my brain works that way
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• If I can just get Mike to the 24-hour Whipper-Snapper, I will be okay.
• Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?
• If you press your ear to the wrist of the world you can hear every heartbeat from the beginning of time
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• How many ways can you say "It's stuff made from soy"?
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• Fall tried to come this week but Summer chased it out of town.
• You can run, but you can't hide
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• Due to the Incompetence of our novice author, our heroine, cahla, finds herself in the wilds of Djibouti; there is no denouement in sight, but the moonlight is pretty.
• I suppose I could have married a World Cup soccer player, but I didn't
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• I note that she is pretty, but we are off into the city, my werewolf friend and I
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• Money can't buy happiness but the lack of it can cause a lot of misery
• the water can kill you, but the beer won’t
• But you can't take the Jungle out of the Tiger
• But can you still cry like a child?
• every statue in town came to life, but they'd been watching long enough to know better than to ever move
• But life is hard when the written word is your first language
• 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 bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• I know it's stealing, but sometimes someone else can say it better than you ever can.
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• You can put your boots in the oven, but that don't make them biscuits.
• 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.
• The Tesla Coil made me cry, but I got a free lunch out of it.
• But I Don't Want To Take Over The World
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• We're not running out of electrons any time soon, but dreams are in short supply.
• The difference between the rich and the poor: the answer, but not the solution, to possibly the biggest world issue.
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• Little lights that don't blink off but fade out instead
• 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.
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I cannot produce a definitive list of everywhere I have been, but I can say that I have seen a whole lot of nowhere
• 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 with words we can create anything
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• If someone punches you out of hatred, they're definitely a villain. But that doesn't mean that you're a hero.
• I feel like shit today, but I can always feel worse tomorrow
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• But if you destroy the world, where would we live?
• I can lie to the face of the devil himself, but I can't fool you.
• the world's big enough, but how about your mind?
• I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• I can burn the hearts of the damned, but I can't stop the burning I feel for you
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train

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