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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Bill Watterson

I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
BILL WATTERSON

Higher Paper Standards
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Liked Thing Understand
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Refuse Wonder World
Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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Believe Evil Men
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Cutting Mom Vegetables
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
BILL WATTERSON

Graduation Real World
Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Animal Ask Friendship Kindness Problem
You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Army Handy Knife Swiss Time

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

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