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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.

Bill Watterson

Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Day Seize Throttle Tomorrow
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Demand Kind Sacrifice
Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Delusion Faces Life People Preposterous
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Craft Different Editorial Joke Taste Technique
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Done Hard Surprising
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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Really Running Stupid
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Funny Inspirational Witty
I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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Anymore Country Mom People Play Think
Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Cutting Mom Vegetables
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Courage Different Everything Lonely Pretty
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.

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There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.

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