Steven Wright

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Why don't they make the whole plane out of that black box stuff.
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Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen.
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I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
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If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
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You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
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I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.
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I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it.
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Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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It's like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.
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All those who believe in psychokinesis - raise my hand.
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If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth, then someone, somewhere is making a penny.
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If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.
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I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
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OK, so what's the speed of dark?
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If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
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If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
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I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
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I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
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I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious!
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I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.
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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 one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
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Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'
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I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.
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They say the universe is expanding. That should help with the traffic.
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Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish.
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I'm standing behind a wall of jokes. You don't know about my personal life, my girlfriends, or what I do when I'm not on the road. There's this guy, this comedian, and this is how he thinks, but people really don't know anything about me.
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The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, 'Where the hell is my roof?
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Collection: Stars
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When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
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Collection: Funny
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If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
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Collection: Inspirational
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How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
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Collection: Funny
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Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Collection: Funny
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Five out of four people have trouble with fractions.
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Collection: Funny Motivational
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always remember your unique, just like everone else
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Collection: Unique
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Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.
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Collection: Funny
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Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?
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Collection: Funny
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I have an inferiority complex, but it’s not a very good one.
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Collection: Inferiority
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The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese
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Collection: Funny
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If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked, and dry cleaners depressed?
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Collection: Funny
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Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
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Collection: Funny
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Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
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Collection: Depression
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If it’s zero degrees outside today and it’s supposed to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold is it going to be?
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Collection: Funny
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If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat
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Collection: Funny
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When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
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Collection: Life
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If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
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Collection: Funny
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Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
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Collection: Funny