Findings:

• That Was Then, This is Now
• This was then, and now I can't even find your grave
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• 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.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• 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
• This is the time. The time was now. And now is then. This was the time.
• I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• what she's building now, it isn't much, but it's hers
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Mr. Potato Head Sprouted. He got moldy. Now he's all dried up, but he's still up in the cabinet.
• Baltimore Then and Now
• Music was better in the old days
• 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!
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• Death was a part of me then, too.
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• 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.
• Our obsessions almost killed me, but now here we are, talking like normal human beings
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• That man has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• You're voting this sucka down now, but I'm going to laugh
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• Then And Now
• Now there's revolution but they don't know what they're fighting
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• He had a prison of brass built in the hole, and then, when it was finished, he locked up his daughter
• for a long time i was afraid i would forget; now i'm afraid i might not
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• I'd ask, sure, I'd ask. But then, then you could say no.
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• She might not need me. But then again she might.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• but the future is always tomorrow -- even now drowning in bytes
• I used to be an adventurer like you, but then I took an arrow to the knee
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• 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?
• Every Now and Then
• Now and Then : From Coney Island to Here
• Syphilis - Then and Now
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• If I node then what I node now
• Burke and Hare the Movie, starring Simon Pegg, as allegory for a corrupt system then and now
• The girls had gone wild and now my dad's cock was missing
• it was true then
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• You couldn't save me back then. I will save you now. Trust me, take my hand.
• What was once well planned in a mad girls mind, and is now quickly becoming a last minute nodermeet
• You're laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka down
• /but what was the question?
• My 486 almost runs Debian now, but I can't play Doom!
• It was all awesome. Then the robots took over.
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• His collection of substances that should not exist was stolen. The thieves then killed themselves 1000 times over.
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• Commit it then to the flames: For it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• You're not laughing now, but I'm voting this sucka up
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• Not atheist, but what then?
• I want my trail to grow over and disappear, but now someone is reading it.
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• And then they came for me, but the bridge would not ignite.
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• It's too bad she won't live. But then again, who does?
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• Someone has writer's block but I don't know if I'm him right now
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• Once and somewhere far away I might have found peace, but now I can't live without this city.
• It's not happening here, but it is happening now.
• I see it on the TV and I laugh out loud, but it's the way I feel right now.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
• it won't kill you to breathe it in, but it may change you, years from now
• 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.
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• Now and Then, Here and There
• now and then
• Now it was personal
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Now that was a scary ending
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• I still miss you, now and then. You'll never know.
• if I had known then what I know now
• I used to think of sobriety as a purgatory, and that to be under the influence of drugs was relief from it. Now that I'm older I believe the opposite to be true.
• When the Space Shuttle Columbia was destroyed on re-entry, I felt a deep sorrow that Cowboy Bebop was now implausible
• Then again, maybe he was recruiting for a cult
• 'Ere Now, Wot's All This Then!
• she was once a stealthy ghostship in the fog, now she shines wherever she walks
• I Was Looking at the Ceiling And Then I Saw the Sky
• I said I was sorry. Then she looked at me.
• And then night was here, after a day of measured breathing, and I could forget about breathing because the waiting was done
• What I used to be/Will pass away, and then you'll see/That all I want now/Is happiness for you and me
• That's a valid point, but right now we're focusing on...
• If it was still then-
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• can it be that it was all so simple then
• I washed dishes with the Chinese FBI then was an extra in a cursed movie
• he touched me then, but I forgot to feel
• But who codes the coders?
• butt naked
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• There is no god but God
• That'd be the butt, Bob
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• Butt hinge
• Butt joint
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• Sororities are nothing but social crutches
• butts ARE litter
• You may think I'm lying, but it's true
• middle of summer how crazy it was
• Why is there always money for war, but not for education?
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child
• A little Clint Black never killed anybody, but it did evacuate the building.
• 1991-96 were more fun years, but I'll likely get more accomplished in the year 2000 alone
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt
• You know to me she's but a fetish
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?

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