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Reality continues to ruin my life.

Bill Watterson

I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
BILL WATTERSON

Adulthood Growing Thinking
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
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Country Friendship People Rationalizing Real Skills
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Guy Humorous Look Thinking
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Fun Giving Hilarious
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Problem Science Trying Unimaginable
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 suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips
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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Frustration Life Like Running
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
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
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Footstep Important Made Matter Precious

Reality continues to ruin my life.

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