If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?

—Steven Wright

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About Steven Wright

Portrait of Steven Wright

Steven Alexander Wright (born December 6, 1955) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, writer and film producer. He is known for his distinctive lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, non sequiturs, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.

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It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

—Steven Wright

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The first time I ever read the dictionary I thought it was a poem about everything.

—Steven Wright

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.

—Steven Wright

My uncle was a clown for the Ringling Brothers Circus, and when he died, all of his friends went to the funeral in one car.

—Steven Wright

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

—Steven Wright

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For a moment we're both silent, staring. I wonder if either of us really sees the other clearly anymore or if we're stuck looking at the frozen images of who we used to be.

—Emily Henry in The Love That Split the World

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Most often in the summertime, she's holed up somewhere with a book, sometimes not saying more than a few words in a whole day.

—Katrin Schumann in The Forgotten Hours

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One thing I've learned about people is that the easiest way to get them to like you is to shut up and let them do the talking.

—Jesse Andrews in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

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Silence makes me nervous cause he doesn't come or go. He just hangs around with his hands in his pockets.

—J.R. Slaughter

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Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

—Gertrude Stein

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