Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

—Steven Wright

About Steven Wright

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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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I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

—Steven Wright

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I invented the cordless extension cord.

—Steven Wright

My neighbor has a circular driveway. He can't get out.

—Steven Wright

One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My dreams were showing up on TVs all over the world.

—Steven Wright

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

—Steven Wright

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Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.

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By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

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People travel to faraway places to watch in fascination the kind of people they ignore at home.

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It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

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We take other men's knowledge and opinions upon trust; which is an idle and superficial learning. We must make them our own. We are just like a man who, needing fire, went to a neighbor's house to fetch it, and finding a very good one there, sat down to warm himself without remembering to carry any back home. What good does it do us to have our belly full of meat if it is not digested, if it is not transformed into us, if it does not nourish and support us?

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