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• Let's get together, chat, drink tea, shoot each other with handguns
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• I know them by the trucks they drive, the names they call each other, the tattoos on hot, shirtless days, the music they blast after lunch, to get through the rest of the day.
• Two lost souls trying to find each other
• I appreciate your concern for others, but I need to get all my ducks in a row first.
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• If I really loved you, you'd never get so close.
• 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.
• Ever seen two people talking to each other in their sleep?
• We might not like each other very much afterwards, but at least we'll understand each other.
• 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.
• They fed off each other, which is unusual in a couple, but nice to see.
• They Love Each Other
• They are in love with each other, or the city
• Two stick figures leaning towards each other, heads touching
• Two Men Meet, Each Believing the Other to Be of Higher Rank
• The end is always the same: two adjacent beach chairs, two hands holding each other.
• Kissing is when two people taste each other tasting each other
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• you can lower your standards, or your pants, but you can't make them love you
• when i get out i'll come and find you cause you're my other half i never told you that
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• I don't know where he gets his words but I like them
• we have the most gigabytes of infodata but we still shoot each other on the streets
• Reverend Larry Love
• He comforted me when he thought I needed it, but never when I really did
• In each other alone
• Mean tricks little kids play on each other
• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• You want to reassure her, but you don't know where to start
• As if we had been sitting next to each other for years
• She's the main attraction, I'm just the recording device
• But if you destroy the world, where would we live?
• I'm at the station, but I can't get on the train
• You beat it in me, that part of you/But I'm gonna split us back in two
• I'm not really okay with being hated for what I am. It's hard to take. But it's still better than being loved for something I'm not.
• Why dogs sniff each other's tails
• Sexually harrassing each other in that cute, non-threatening teenage way
• Jvony the Vlasic Stork and Other Colorful Characters
• The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
• nothing moments of just wanting each other
• When users of E2 meet each other (e2poll)
• Part One: We Learn from Each Other
• It did not get nicer, but it sure got a hell of a lot more honest
• I can't get published, but this crap can
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• Yeah I can love my fellow man; but I'm damned if I'll love yours.
• The bastards got me but they won't get everybody
• Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever
• She really does want to clap along, but at the same time she doesn't want to let the bird get out.
• But can a robot love.
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I may never be queen, but you will never break me
• I never wanted to burn any bridges. But I did want to light some fires.
• There are many like it, but this one is mine
• An army of slippers but only two feet
• Things you don't want to hear (but will) when you get into bed with a girl
• Hurting Each Other
• Falling in love with fictional characters
• This is how fat women should treat each other
• Kick up dust in the ruins of each other's souls
• They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended!
• I know there are other fish in the sea but I don't want them
• We are all shadows colliding into each other
• Can we still like each other knowing the worst about each other?
• we are all just books reading each other
• Kiss Each Other Clean
• how we treat each other
• Forever blue, but never black
• She hated the screen porch, but she loved the heat
• You say you love; but with a voice
• All right. She can fly circles around Uranus, but where's the bathroom?
• Effort on behalf of those we love is not work, but prayer disguised
• I didn't read it but I want to get into the author's pants
• Everything is relative, but some things are more relative than others
• I call, but I never talk. I knock, but I never enter. I feel a bit insecure.
• old chestnut: all but two
• answer: all but two
• love me less, but, love me for a long time...!
• Can I play with your breasts? Yes, but don't get out of the yard.
• There are women and tender children where those shells fall, but war is war.
• Girls possess me but they're never mine.
• On the one hand my life is in danger, but on the other hand, I'm getting really stoned
• In Which Ethel Gao Gets Off His Butt and Accepts the Call
• I don't know about that fellow Rand, but I'd never trust a McNally.
• Eyes are the windows to the soul, but there are some windows that should never be opened
• words I've wanted to tell you but never seem to be able to
• 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.
• 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.
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• I try to write you a love song but it comes out a lament
• we can give up, but the world never will
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
• Work where you must but live and shop in Tustin
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• plot device
• Let's not start sucking each other's dicks quite yet, gentlemen
• Two Characters in Search of a Restaurant
• We are robots. We work with each other. We produce small scraps of paper.
• Why do we hear two thumps in each heartbeat?
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• Grace and Fury walk with you, call each by name when the other has failed
• The lonely ones will find each other by the heat of their bodies
• She bought a new smile every week when we first started seeing each other. Then I had to buy them.
• character device
• why don't poets kill each other anymore?
• Quit jerking each other off already and write something
• the minutes repeat each other
• 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 have blinked. And the world has blinked. And we open our eyes to find each other alone.
• be good to each other
• Each one was the scene where you hold your breath
• How to get Windows 2000 to let you alter the Device Manager
• 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
• It never rains but it pours
• Questions you never asked, but now that I mention it, yeah, that's a good point
• I love you but I have to let you go
• Skim this life but never live
• The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his
• I can't remember when I fell but I love it down here
• I get knocked down, but I get up again
• Perhaps pain will stop me where good sense and virtue have failed
• I hate Ronald Reagan, but I love He-Man
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• Yet is there hope, then Love but play thy part
• On two concert, I'm shootive collective photo but small, fat, bald headed technologist be insane
• She could hit four octaves above high-C, but she never performed in public
• But if life were only moments, then you'd never know you had one
• always morning, but never breakfast
• 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 love you but you are not here, oh how my poor heart aches with angst
• It's like this train. It can't run anywhere but where its rails take it.
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• I love you, but it's cold out here
• forever falling, but never losing altitude
• you never felt her hot blood on your face but, hey, who's keeping track
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• We all love movies and books about us owning ourselves
• I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while
• I always knew I would have a 21st birthday but I never thought I'd be 21
• If a system is given nothing but a steady supply of unconditional self-affirmation, it will never see an impetus to cure its ills
• you never thought this would happen to you, but it did
• Santa's festive fear mongering wasn't going as well as he'd hoped, but the other Santa and I were enjoying the gingerbread.
• I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend your other, less ludicrous opinion that glitch speed runs are pointless.
• I've been offered a lot for my work, but never everything.
• You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
• I love my apartment but hate the management.
• curiosity killed the cat, but it never hurt me
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• I can get away with murder, but I can't get you out of my head
• 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.
• I love you, but I dare not tell you.
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• Love is but a Fleeing Spec of Emotion
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• I Love Them But They Don't Love Me
• Snowy reception on some channels but not on others
• I can't get a girlfriend but my dog has a harem
• How to develop one side of your butt and still have the other one flabby
• When you get to the top, I know what it'll seem like. But there IS someone there. There IS someone there.
• You've Always Had a Hidden Agenda, but people were busy with other things
• your chances of being killed by a frog are low BUT NEVER ZERO
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• New York I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down
• executed but never exposed
• Candide and Martin, While Thus Reasoning with Each Other, Draw Near to the Coast of France
• My Mother and I Love Your Butt
• There's a sign on the wall. But she wants to be sure. Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
• We owe each other the world
• I'll be happier when the rain stops. But I know I'd be miserable if it never rained again.
• I could never draw but they made me an artist
• It would have been an excellent story but I had to get off the train
• melancholy is good, but not every single day, and certainly not more than two days in a row
• But where the bones had landed, things began to grow

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