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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson

Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Battle Disrespect Drama InterAction
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Day Seize Throttle Tomorrow
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Actually Artist Quality Smoke Tell
Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Art Deconstruction Needs Offering Sometimes
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

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