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You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

Bill Watterson

That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
BILL WATTERSON

Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Higher Paper Standards
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Firsts Hobbes Use
Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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Everyone Knows Letter Played Score Word
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
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
Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.
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Book Rain Reading
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
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 wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Mean Wonder
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
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
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
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Enjoy School Smock Sunday

You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.

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