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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Bill Watterson

If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Butter Control Funny Life Peanut
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
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
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
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
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Point Rockets Ships Wearing

Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

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