Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "I wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. If only to travel the expanse of reality in ways I couldn't do here on Earth. Now I do it through writing."

• What do you want to be when you grow up?
• people do, on the whole, have the right to be who they want to be
• do you want to understand? or do you want to be right?
• Why do girls only want to have "serious" relationships?
• You, standing
• twelve ways to do and be is enough for cats
• And if terrorists wanted to communicate secretly, mightn't they just do so by collaborating on a 'draft' here at e2? Can the NSA check on our drafts? Who knows? Inquiring minds want to know, Jay!
• Reality creeps through the cracks of broken places and broken thoughts and asks us: What Will You Do?
• I Do Not Want To Be One Of Those People
• Do you really want Alexa to be hearing this
• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• Proposed: The only way for a woman to achieve true ecstacy is to allow herself to be taken by the Goat God in the Circle of Candles on a moonless night
• I want to be woken by you climbing through my window
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• Do you want your possessions identified?
• I Do Not Want This
• How do astronauts go to the bathroom?
• Do you work here?
• Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law
• if i'm right, you'll be here to read this any day now
• Notes on What's What and on What it Might be Reasonable to do about Whats What
• What the hell do you want?
• Forget what you think you know about the opposite sex
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• Only at Chuck E. Cheese's, in the small hours with a gun in my hand, do I feel truly alive
• Dogs, do you want to live forever?
• Do you want to live forever?
• I couldn't possibly be the only one who doesn't see empathy as a curse
• What do you want in life, Hal?
• I don't see Heinlein writing books proposing that only farmers should be allowed to vote
• Do Not Come Here
• What I really want to do is direct
• I do not want to talk
• Do you think you could love me now?
• How do you know a girl wants to smooch?
• How do you know a dog wants to smooch?
• What do you want, a cookie?
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• Do the world a favor, raise your kids atheist
• To do is to be
• Do it the risky way, out in the open
• Do Not Travel Alone
• Oh I Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside
• I do not want to see the corpses that are surely on the bottom of the lake
• Do you want to taste my memories?
• do not look upon her; you shall be blinded
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• All you have to do is listen, and be ready.
• Only by spreading rights to others do we ensure those rights for ourselves.
• Is it as it is to do or is it as it is to be?
• You don't really remember the lonely kid, do you.
• It's gone, aint nothing you can do about it now
• I miss the way you do the dishes
• Here's what I hope to do with the Everything code or with something like it
• What do you want to see happen?
• There's nothing more annoying than to try to rebel against someone who's totally supportive about whatever you want to do
• Do you want to get slapped?
• Do you really want to live forever?
• I want someone to do cute things for
• I don't want to be here when you don't call.
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• The mailbomb from the Christian Fundamentalists I pissed off should be here any day now
• Things to do when technology gets here
• Here comes another resilient thing: Let's do the killing
• You can do anything you want to, as long as it's not important
• Why do I have to call ONLY ONE country "home?"
• All right, I'm God now. How do I get out of this mess?
• Do you love me now, Daddy? Do you think I'm pretty?
• "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" rule
• You do not have a right to not be offended
• How do souls travel?
• Making a fool of myself must be a hobby, I do it so frequently
• All People That on Earth Do Dwell
• What I used to be/Will pass away, and then you'll see/That all I want now/Is happiness for you and me
• We do what we do because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
• What dream did you rise on to know my soul the way you do?
• How Do You Want Me?
• Things I'll do now that he's gone
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• finding my way back to sanity again, though I don't really know what I'm going to do when I get there
• Where do we go from here?
• Do Things The Old Way (category)
• Sandra will do as Sandra always does, that is, whatever she wants
• You do realise that this is going to be our lives for the next ten years?
• Do Whatever You Want All the Time
• How do I kludge thee? Let me count the ways
• Nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
• Do you feel the way you hate? Do you hate the way you feel?
• we do not give what we want to take
• All I do is kiss you through the stars of Orion.
• Where do you want to go today?
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• Thinking I could do it by myself and learning I couldn't.
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• So... what do we do now that we're happy?
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• What can you do this month that you couldn't do last month?
• You can still be very hurtful when you do what's right.
• Writing .com files with DOS debug
• Now this is the way the Internet is supposed to be!
• What I want from life
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• do what now?
• Something you definitely do not want on your face
• Why do Christians bring their kids up as Christians?
• Do you want to cuddle in my tent?
• How long do you think I'll let you keep me here?
• This program cannot be run in DOS mode
• Social contract theory = Treat people the way you want to be treated
• If you lived here, you'd be home now
• Nothing to do, nothing to say, I think I must be dreaming
• Now you do what they told ya
• Reality can only be predicted on a statistical basis
• It's the Internet, I can do what I want
• How do we know dog biscuits are "now better tasting!"?
• Do you come here often?
• Why you do not want to work for an ad agency
• 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
• Do you want to say something with that song?
• I'm out; I'm free. Down here the night air is purple. What do I do with it all?
• What do we want? Nothing. When do we want it? Whenever.
• Do humans perceive reality indirectly?
• The Punk Meets the Godfather, Part One: Do My Converse look okay? And other preconceptions by a hippie kid
• So long Arthur Miller! Who do I have to look up to now?
• Do it now
• Do not be surprised, I have always been your canvas, Argenis.
• The delicate women do not want to dance
• Why do you want to get married?
• Do you Know the Way To San José?
• Do not bring your evil here
• 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.
• This will be the hardest thing you ever do
• I wanted to do it again
• What do you want?
• What do we do now, mother machine?
• Reality has nothing to do with money
• Do you still want your first universe?
• No, really, there's STACKS of fun stuff to do here: A defiant Canberra nodermeet
• We couldn't be anywhere else but here
• He loved her so much, he wanted to do her autopsy
• Do you want a kitten?
• Because I do not want to forget
• Be Here Now
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not

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