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Steven Wright

Steven Wright

Comedian · American · b. 1955

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If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
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If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.
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I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
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I live on a one-way street that's also a dead end. I'm not sure how I got there.
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If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.
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I intend to live forever. So far, so good.
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
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Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
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If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?
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When I erase a word with a pencil, where does it go?
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I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.
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When I was a fetus, I used to sneak out at night when my mother was sleeping. I figured I should start stealing stuff while I still had no fingerprints.
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I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It says, 'Scale: 1 mile = 1 mile.' I spent last summer folding it. I hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and I say, 'E6.
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Sometimes I talk to myself in languages I'm unfamiliar with... just to screw with my subconscious.
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don't have film.
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