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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

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
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Point Rockets Ships Wearing
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
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
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
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
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.
BILL WATTERSON

Enjoy School Smock Sunday
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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Celebrities Class Common Ideas People
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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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks

The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.

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