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Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?

Bill Watterson

Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Kids Publication School Yearbook
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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Celebrities Class Common Ideas People
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Mean Wonder
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
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Country Kings Mom Nice People Think

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