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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.

Bill Watterson

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Enemy Maybe Needs Take Yeah
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Humans Pride Source
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Good Friend More Money Needs
Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Day Seize Throttle Tomorrow
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
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Change Different Funny Life
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Graduation Real World
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person

Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.

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