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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.

Bill Watterson

Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
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
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
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Car Mind Running
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
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Avoiding Hobbies Slips
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Book Rain Reading
What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Cheat Game Idiotic Lose Play Sneaky Some Undermanned
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Mean Opiates Television
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
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Butter Control Funny Life Peanut
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Life
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
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

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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