It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I’d never even thought about killing myself.
STEVEN WRIGHTWhen I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
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I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
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If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
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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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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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You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.
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I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.
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If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
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My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.
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How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
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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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My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
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If heat rises, then heaven must be hotter than hell.
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Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
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