A cardboard box overflowing with colourful button-and-marble planets beside an empty miniature shelf.

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Steven Wright

You can't have everything...where would you put it?

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A deadpan joke on greed: you can't have everything, because you'd have nowhere to store it. It swaps the usual moral about limits for a practical storage problem, treating wanting everything as a space-planning issue rather than a question of desire.

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