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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.

Bill Watterson

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
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
Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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Inspirational Life Peace
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
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
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Battle Disrespect Drama InterAction
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Best Friend Friendship Inspirational
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed

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