Findings:

• In the end it did not matter. The ocean was still there.
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• 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.
• It's only love: at the end of the day, there are still thunderstorms and sunsets
• The class valedictorian was still tripping balls when he was bailed out in time to give the commencement speech at graduation
• I was there
• I still know what you did last summer
• nor was there anything to be attained that you didn't already have
• Why, Martha, for the longest time there was no railway station in Slough!
• In the end, it was a Good Thing that I rushed Pierre.
• There was an old lady
• There is no beginning, no movement, no peace and no end
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• There was a little girl
• Are there still so many Nazis in Germany?
• If I was the ocean, what would you be to me?
• Still Looking for Ends
• No shit, there I was
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• There Was a Child Went Forth
• 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
• No matter where you go, there you are
• A knock there was upon the door
• No matter what I did to fix it, the damn thing never got everything right
• I worked at the mall in the 80s. There was a cult that used to recruit out on the front steps.
• There Was a Desert in My Head
• in the end it was better that we were apart
• The End of the Matter, and the Fallen King
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• no matter how pretty the flower, it's still only a weed
• The beginning was the end
• I remember, there was one
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• Several thousand years later and the angel was still as boring as sin
• There Was a Man of Double Deed
• There was a cold day
• There was a man and a woman
• It all burned up in the fire there was nothing left
• There was a young lady of Riga
• What story down there awaits its end?
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• Two of them. Hovering there like bloated gas giants in the heavens. Good God, it was beautiful.
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• Seriously, though, who the hell did I think I was going to become?
• What did people use as incidental music before Moby was invented?
• There was a time when I got lost wherever I went.
• There suddenly did not seem time enough for everything.
• You don't see the light at the end of the tunnel now, but it's there. I'm holding it for you.
• When Pride Still Mattered
• No matter where I was, whisps of you haunted my thoughts
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• What story there awaits its end?
• Back when grunge was still cool
• mermaids never miss their legs in the sea because mermaids know that there are better ways to move through the ocean than kicking.
• There's still a place for the odd concentration camp
• wake up and find her still there
• There could still be a reunion of The Band
• I wanted nothing more than for the ocean to be calm and still
• In the end it was always a stranger's hand
• I saw him lying there leaving me, and I did not know
• There was once a Man
• If Christianity were true, why would there still be any Jews?
• Well, I was tired of being 24 anyway, so there
• There was a man with tongue of wood
• There was a land where lived no violets
• There was this one great night at Alice's house,
• remember, when they look right through you, you're still there
• I stared into the muddled sky with tears running down my face in small rivers, and I knew then that there was no hope
• Her innocence fell. She kicked at it some, frowned, and left it there because it was beautiful.
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• There was a time before
• Was There a Time
• One hour there was sunlight
• and there was this girl
• How did I end up here?
• If it was still then-
• We did not know it was a war
• Before you, there was me
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• There was a baby in China
• There Was No Leak
• Before inertia, there was impetus
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Once there was a bug in a hole that he dug
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• There Was A Friend
• Once there was a way...
• He was there, and then he wasn't, and with him went those memories
• Did Ronald Reagan end the Cold War?
• there was more poetry in her shopping lists than in any of my rhymes
• relatedly somehow, there was a point a few years ago when I learned how to terrify
• There was always the blue of you
• Was that real, or did I dream it?
• There was a Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
• In the end, only kindness matters
• 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 Ocean at the End of the Lane
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• When I was little my mother told me not to sit close to the T.V., so when I was six I did.
• The Day the World was about to End
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• do not believe that any idea is the end. there is no end to ideas.
• it doesn't matter who I was, all that matters is who I am
• George W. Bush is a moron, and there is no 'grey matter' there
• Stuff was started stuff had ends
• There and Back Again: Eating Our Way from Bag End to the Grey Havens, A Hobbit's Tale
• did i really change the way you think about everything? was it the chemicals in your brain?
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• Finding air where matter once was
• I was floating in the ocean of his eyes.
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• In a dream I had, I was on an island in the middle of the ocean.
• It doesn't matter whether Hitler was an Atheist or a Christian
• Your smile was embarrassed. Your fingers were dew-covered. I am still smiling.
• For a few more precious seconds, the body I was born with was still in one piece
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• Back when our blood was still warm
• Since when did being spiritual matter? Since when did thread count matter?
• still there
• The artifact was completely impenetrable to all forms of matter except living human flesh
• As a matter of fact I did invent the Internet
• When I woke up this morning, I thought I was a parallelogram. I still have a sneaking suspicion.
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• There is a wound that is healing. There is a season waiting for me. There is a road that is turning. There is a fire still burning.
• I did not need it. I was strong. I was steady. I knew what I was doing.
• So I turned round and there was an inflatable man sat at the table
• 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
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• There once was a chicken named Alice
• There was a time when I was a better person
• Was it ever there?
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• There was a rose that faded young
• There was a moment of drunken silence
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.
• Johnny Clueless was there, with his Simulated Wood-Grain
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• There once was a girl named Irene
• I saw what you did there
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• There never was a body that gave the undertaker a tip
• Everything Stalin did was legal
• There Once Was a Farmer
• There once was a man from St. Paul
• He thinks a path and travels the emptiness that was there
• She was the cutest necromancer I ever did see
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• Where's the kaboom?
• he listened so well, he was still curious.
• All you ever did was let it happen
• Unfortunately, there was no applause
• There was no one waiting for me...
• There was a man who lived a life of fire
• there was at that moment no one more rightful dead than that unknown and faceless man
• the dead had risen, and there was nobody to pump gas
• No one learned anything, because there was nothing to learn.
• I did not miss what my body did not remember, until it was reminded
• that pain was something I needed, and probably did to myself
• Did my pussy just run into you?
• What face did you have before your mother and father were born?
• The Butler Did it, Again
• I almost did it
• the god that can be killed was never god in the first place
• More hips!
• How did we come to this?
• Why, again, did I suffer through four years of high school?
• The dumbest thing I ever did while under the influence of alcohol
• Keeping beer cold in the Old West
• When did everyone get so attractive?
• Did You Save One Of Me?
• Which way did the bicycle go?
• The boy who did not understand the language of the birds
• Where did Archie find the time?
• Why I did what I did
• They did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.

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