Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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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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I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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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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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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Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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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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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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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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