The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.
STEVEN WRIGHTI got a new dog. He’s a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he’s not sure what I threw him.
More Steven Wright Quotes
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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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All those who believe in psychokinesis – raise my hand.
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Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
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Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I’d have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
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If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
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You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
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My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
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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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I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?
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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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I installed a skylight in my apartment, the people who live above me are furious!
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When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.
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