You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.

—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.

More quotations from Steven Wright

I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.

—Steven Wright

You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading.. And all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time.

—Steven Wright

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.

—Steven Wright

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

—Steven Wright

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

—Steven Wright

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More quotations tagged with “kindness”

The world is full of hundreds of beautiful things we can never possibly have time to discover, and there is no time to be unkind or envious or ungenerous, and no sense in enslaving the mind to the trivialities of the moment. For you can be equal to the greatness of life only by marching with it; not by seeking love but by giving it, nor seeking to be understood but learning to understand. And when it is all over, there will be an agony of remorse because one spared the effort and did not make more of that little span of opportunity; and knowing reality at last, who knows but that one will look back with unassuageable regret upon one's pitiful little faith.

—Vivienne de Watteville

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

—Dodie Smith in I Capture the Castle

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It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

—Agatha Christie in The Man in the Brown Suit

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If you're naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don't like.

—William Feather

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Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

History

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