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Bill Watterson

My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Day Every Ideas Motivation New School
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
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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Differences Inability Praying Strength
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Kids Publication School Yearbook
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Boys Kids Resources Scary Supposed
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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Experience Pointless Suddenly Time
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
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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Idea Packing Percent Prostituted
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Inspirational Life Peace
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Beautiful Grow Up Thinking
I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Allowed Hello Rattle Say Stop Swear Words
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Done Hard Surprising
If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Cute Funny Life Stars

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