Findings:

• may you make mistakes large enough to learn from, but small enough that they do not destroy you
• What is real but compassion as we move from birth to death
• I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
• I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death.
• Keeping secrets from your children may harm them
• Dreams Can Be Cryptic, Dreams Can Obfuscate, But Dreams Do Not Lie
• 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
• We enjoy a quiet but satisfying yuletide until people from the social services come to release us
• Until death do us part
• Out of practice but my heart hurts so
• 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!
• Do you not see that if we kill him with the pill from the till by making with it the drug in the jug, you need not light the candle with the handle on the gateau from the chateau!
• He loved her so much, he wanted to do her autopsy
• So runs my dream; but what am I?
• Good from far, but far from good
• 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 always want to go back. but i don't know if it's time yet. i have some things i have to do.
• Why do people on TV eat so much?
• Excerpt from "DEATH IN HYDERABAD"
• 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
• He learned to dance from emus but he learned to love from seraphim
• "Why, oh why do I have so many innocuous crosses to bear?"
• Where do these girls come from these days? Some finishing school in the desert?
• Are apples, or a woman, so far from your reality?
• So there I was, naked and hiding, facing the dissertation committee from the Isle of Lesbos
• 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.
• So says the preacher man, but... I don't go by what he says
• So then I tried staring into the abyss, but it got distracted by a weasel and ditched me
• I know you're up there. I am but a discontented symbol birthed from the blood of your terrible pen.
• and but so
• But can you imagine what that would do to all those juggaloes?
• It is not instruction, but provocation, that I can receive from another soul.
• Death From Above
• Is the fact of your certain death enough to prevent you from enjoying life?
• What can a reed do but sway about and love?
• From five to death and back
• How do you stop a rhino from charging?
• Made direct amends to such people wherever possible except when to do so would injure them or others
• Death From Above 1979
• it won't kill you to breathe it in, but it may change you, years from now
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• Where do discarded return values from functions really go?
• Except When To Do So Would Injure Them Or Others
• I don't know what I don't know, so how do I know what to ask?
• 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.
• I didn’t know why it took girls so long to do their makeup until someone showed me how to dismantle the patriarchy with an allen wrench and a roast chicken ballotine.
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• Put That Thing Back Where it Came From or So Help Me
• try to memorize this moment so that years from now I can tell the story of it
• Do Not Fire From Target Continuum
• It's not so much that I like him as a person God, but as a boy he's very handsome
• I wrote you a letter on the bus back from the city, but that's a different kind of weary
• I do not lift pencils for art, but for words
• I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.
• I'd love to stay and let you break my heart, but I have laundry to do
• I'm so goddamned cruel to you. But you'll never know
• They do not know how immortal, but I know
• Your radical ideas about many things have already occurred to others but have never been articulated in a fashion so accessible to current generations
• I've got nifty things to do in September but it's not September yet.
• 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.
• the ocean is never calm and still, but the depths are very different from the surface
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• I've never seen a glacier up close, but I've touched your hand. It felt so cold.
• 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?
• one kiss: bad for me, but i give in so easily. i'm weak.
• I had not thought death had undone so many
• Simple methods for conversing with those suffering from death
• From Sidon to Tyre, or Death Surprised
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• I will tell you the phrase, but you must never speak it out loud. If you do, you will surely die.
• sometimes death comes when it's the furthest thing from your mind
• From Death, Lead Me To Immortality
• Never rely on an Artificial Intelligence to save you from fiery death
• Telling real pearls from fake ones
• Where do babies come from?
• What I want from life
• English may be a "living language," but Latin is not -- so get it right.
• Do not take advice from someone named after a reentry vehicle
• What do we learn from Wordsworth's poetry? We learn not to read Wordsworth's poetry.
• Insects do so much the rest of the world never notices.
• So your ceiling has fallen on your pinball machine. What do you do?
• I give you corn. So much corn do I give.
• Listen to me, because I am in the soapbox. This is the voice of the soapbox. I am calling to you. Do you hear the sounds of my soaply siren song? My syntactically sweet strumming along to sequential sequestrations of symmetrically snakey st
• do you think i can get all my ideas out? so they aren't lost?
• 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!
• stop trying so hard, and just do. you'll do better.
• why I do have to get so deep with people all the time just to gently let them down 2 weeks later
• Do you know what it is like to be alone among so many?
• Do Lobsters Cough and Other Things From the Days of Covid-19
• So You Think You Are a "Christian," Do You?
• Making a fool of myself must be a hobby, I do it so frequently
• I tiptoe back into myself so I can run from what I was
• So Far From Home
• stop adoring from so far away
• He said 'tentacle porn', so I stuck my dick in a toaster and went from there
• Where do we go from here?
• Do not mourn the day, for the sun shall rise, but you may not
• I can see three corners from this corner. Two's a perfect number. But one?
• I am in love with so much more than your body heat, but let's start there
• not running from, but going to
• Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
• So many were frozen, but you we kept warm
• Duty is weightier than a mountain, but death is lighter than a feather
• I've lost my memory but I have ink, so.
• you laugh and then you cry but you're still laughing but you miss her so damn much
• I tried to laugh but my photocells were cold from the night
• I can cast Zulthon's Glowing Rings, but I cannot cast you from my heart
• It wasn't so much what you said, or what I did, but more what you said I did, and what I didn't say at all.
• Women are from Earth, but men only wander it
• Think of something you always wanted to do, but are afraid of. Do it today.
• 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.
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• Sorry to eat and run, but I've got to go stop Lincoln from killing Hitler in his crib
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• I am afraid to breathe or shut my eyes but I do both.
• you can give up, but there will always be those who do not
• Of course they want to come here. Who doesn't? Besides the people from Los Angeles, but we don't speak of them.
• In quiet corners of the world, death clings to life in a hopeless embrace, but it cannot hide its stench.
• What to do if you earn a lot but hate your job
• He thinks I don't, but I do
• Cemeteries are boring, but I can't seem to stay away from this one in particular.
• The Guards die, but do not surrender
• It isn’t fun to hide. But it will protect you from lightning.
• don't work from ideas toward reality, but from reality toward ideas
• nothing to do but hold the hand of the Buddha and roam
• they carry but they do not understand
• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit
• Till Death Us Do Part
• Why Buddhist countries do not have the death penalty
• It hasn't been so long, but
• Reality can't be whatever I want it to be, but maybe it's not so clear-cut, you know?
• A diversion from death's protocol
• Who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
• How to get SMS death threats from coke dealers in London
• Letter From My Father After the Death of My Mother
• But what's stopping me from staring at the stars now?
• I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
• Owen Juan Roberts: Letter From Death Row
• From Death to Passwords Where You're a Paper Aeroplane
• because death is just so full, and man so small
• looking back from the moment of death, spiralling antimatter from the eyes
• sometimes death comes when it's the furthest from your mind
• Live from Death Row
• Why do all the pretty things always run away from me?
• Why do I find coconuts so gloriously alluring?
• Why do we treat them so well?
• The bullets inside are very hot. Why do I feel so cold?
• Movie trailers are not effective as advertising
• Why do so many people wear glasses?
• do re mi fa so la ti do
• So there is death in my voice; what of it?
• 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.
• This one goes out to you - not so much the people in the audience, but more the people in my mind
• We should do well to take our lesson from the stars
• So long Arthur Miller! Who do I have to look up to now?
• How to get an abortion when it's illegal to do so in your country
• His socks do not have a smell, which is so courteous.
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• 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 have to get up early and do laundry so I can wear something nice to the weirdo sex club
• It's so easy to say you cried yourself to sleep. It's so hard to do.
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• If you enhance your rave experience, do so safely
• butt naked
• Butt hinge
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• A story about a picture can only say so much, even in a thousand words or more
• 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

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