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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.

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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Football Sports Thinking
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Ignorant Men Risk
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Craft Different Editorial Joke Taste Technique
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Differences Inability Praying Strength
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
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
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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Fantasies Head Realistically Since
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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Children Mom Motivational

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