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The last cut was the deepest.
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In it up to my neck.
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Stork-borne Parrot Crow Grouse Cuckoo Swansong.
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I'm a goer not a goner.
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TIME: it's just IT and ME.
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Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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Started imparted kind-hearted outsmarted boring-old-farted departed.
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One by one my days dissolve.
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A drop in the eternal sea.
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The BIRTH-DEATH break: THE HARD BIT.
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THE HARD BIT, BIRTH plus DEATH.
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Would I could just start anew.
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Would I could start once again.
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Time flies from ME and IT.
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Time is on my side: offside!
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Is this all there is? Probably.
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R U watching. Artistic, not autistic!
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Aimed for moon. Lost in space.
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A mother's love outlasts it all.
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A mother's love outlasts the grave.
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My friend my foe my mum.
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Instilling the wisdom of the world.
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The other five? Mum's the word.
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I wish I'd listened to mum.
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Take one egg. Add sperm. Coddle.
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My epitaph: he did his best.
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The darkling day drifts into night.
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Let's hope God used floppy discs.
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Wishing I could turn back time.
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Avoided Hell, missed Heaven, experienced Purgatory.
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Still haven't fixed my dodgy dossier.
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Timeless dreams of turning back time.
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Did nothing, but nothing stupid either.
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Flew the flag, flagged and faded.
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Fought the fight, pulled my punches.
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Bought golf clubs. Forgot the balls.
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Got going; hard going; going, gone.
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I made a difference, not much.
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This remains when I am gone.
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Rage, rage against the dying light.
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Aimed low, shot myself in foot.
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Still waiting for my fifteen minutes.
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Just look around see my memorial.
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Explained the universe in three sentences.
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Gazed at sky, fazed in eye.
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Found the answer. What's the question?
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Talked the talk, no one listened.
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Walked the walk, slipped and fell.
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Hit the heights, plumbed the depths.
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Born a poet, hereby show it.
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Lurched into the valley of death.
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Nooks and niches, cooks and quiches.
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Life sucks, but the alternative's worse.
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The needle's stuck, the music's stopped.
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Sought nooks crannies, found crooks nannies.
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Broke out, broke up, broke down.
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Grabbed the bull, by china shop.
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Grabbed the bull, in china shop.
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Grabbed the bull, at wrong end.
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Birth growth health wealth girth death.
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Grabbed the bull, at wrong end.
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Those busy days fade into night.
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From noisy days to silent night.
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Objective time speeds, subjective time accelerates.
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Always a tadpole, never a frog.
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The secret of life is a
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Some joy, some sorrow, always tomorrow.
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Some love, some hate, rest fate.
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Life is like a half-squeezed lemon.
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At sixes and sevens, nearing ten.
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Unknown knowns, unknown unknowns, known unknowns.
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You're right, I'm left, she's gone.
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Too much rhubarb, not enough custard.
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I laughed at my own jokes.
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Life's like the crust on pie.
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Poor man; beggarman thief: rich man.
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Carpe diem. I did. Bad nights.
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I waited for time and tide.
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Some roses, some poppies, no fuschia.
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Real time speeds, my time accelerates.
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A long day's journey into night.
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It's been a hard day's night.
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Two sides to take too often.
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Ate like Elvis, sang like wolves.
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"Waaah"; "Mama"; "Allgone"; rhetoric, confabulation, allgone.
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One-off two-finger three-score four-dimensional five-star six-foot.
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Take one egg. Add sperm. Scramble.
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In the gutter gazing at stars.
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Many yellow but no red cards.
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No drugs; drugs; too many drugs.
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From bugs and water to culture.
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Less is more, more or less.
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Inspired hired fired tired retired expired..
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Going forward; marking time; looking back.
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Thought sought caught fought fraught nought.
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I should have danced all night.
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Its-amazing-how-far-one-can-get-in-life-by-bending-the-rules.
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Sought the fame, fought the same.
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Oneself two-armed three-dimensioned four-starred five-toed six-footer.
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Respiration aspiration perspiration inspiration desperation expiration.
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Learning sleeping earning sleeping gurning sleeping.
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Where have all the hours gone?.
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Forty-five years awake, twenty years asleep.
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They're bad, you're sad, I'm good.
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To have lived is miracle enough.
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They're bad, you're mad, I'm good.
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I should never have eaten nails.
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At the end of lonely street.
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Impregnation, extraction, consolidation, procrastination, disintegration, cremation.
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I was busy making other plans.
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Life spells Love Inspiration Fortune Excitement.
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Lord, what were you thinking of
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Learning yearning earning spurning gurning urning.
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Stork, parrot, peacock, shag, baldicoot, vulture.
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Birth marks, Karl Marx, Groucho Marx.
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Heart mended head sorted body scotched
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Mind says go, body says no
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Oui. Je regrette beaucoup de choses
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Once, twice, three times a ladykiller
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Once, twice, three times a ladykiller.
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Oui. Je regrette beaucoup de choses.
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Mind says go, body says no.
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Red blue rainbow gold silver white.
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Black yesterday now fades to gray.
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Life has if at its heart.
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Sex act; sex acts; acts sex.
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Badgered, dogged, outfoxed, but not cowed.
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Death where is thy sting? Ow!.
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Waived the rules, ruled the waves.
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Had my cake and ate it.
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Red blue rainbow gold silver white.
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Black yesterday now fades to gray.
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Rabbit-punched, horse-whipped, hen-pecked, dog-tired, but uncowed.
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Hotel, hospital, school, university, church, church.
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! ! (?:) .
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What is this? I'm a novelist!
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Around the world in eighty years.
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Cemetery, hospital, school, university, hospital, cemetery.
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Lights on, lights up, lights out.
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Just go ogle me on Google.
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Smithers' loyalty, Marge's probity, Lisa's perspicacity.
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How has it come to this?
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All that talent down the drain.
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No no no no no yes.
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Life is a fatal venereal disease.
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Life's a bitch, and I'm dog-tired.
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I should have had more sex.
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I have nothing to declare but
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I should have practised the penalties.
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Six words make my life sentence.
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Life's just an eff in lie.
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Life a joke? I'm not laughing.
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Life rearranged into a computer file
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My diet flies more pies goodbye
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Some wrong some song so long
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Not the way God planned it.
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Had a ball. Decline and fall.
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I wish I were Lisa Simpson
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Life is a fatal venereal disease.
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Fornication education cohabitation procreation incapacitation termination
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In the beginning was the end
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Tarried, worried, hurried, married, harried, horrid
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From a jack to a king
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Thanks for the what was it
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Life's a bowl of cherry stones.
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Just when does it all begin
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From birds and bees to worms.
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Birth, youth, health, wealth, girth, death.
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Life is a four letter word.
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Sex act; sex acts; act sex.
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I should have listened to mum.
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No head, no heart, no body.
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When is it going to start?
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