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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

Bill Watterson

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 thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
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
Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Animal Ask Friendship Kindness Problem
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Desire Life Positive
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Examine Fun Garden Life
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Cheat Game Idiotic Lose Play Sneaky Some Undermanned
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
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
You know, there are times when it’s a source of personal pride to not be human.
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Humans Pride Source
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Funny Inspirational Sarcastic
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
Calvin: 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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Believe Evil Men
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

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