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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.

Bill Watterson

Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Funny Guess Moving School
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
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’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
Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Differences Inability Praying Strength
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
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
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

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