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Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!

Bill Watterson

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.
BILL WATTERSON

Cutting Mom Vegetables
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Admire Special World
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
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
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
BILL WATTERSON

Children Mom Motivational
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Assembly Baby Cheaper Dad Light Sears
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Loopholes Pubbawup
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Aggerations Character Expression Moving
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Problem Science Trying Unimaginable
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
BILL WATTERSON

Art Book Comics Hands

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