Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
BILL WATTERSONPeople think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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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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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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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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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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You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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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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