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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.

Bill Watterson

Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
BILL WATTERSON

Looks never Prepared
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
BILL WATTERSON

Lobotomy Needs Saws
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
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
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
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
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSON

Detours Failure Resources Wells
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
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
Calvin: Dad where do babies come from? Dad: Well Calvin, you simply go to Sears, buy the kit and follow the assembly instructions. Calvin: I came from Sears? Dad: No you were a blue-light special at K-Mart – almost as good and a lot cheaper!
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Assembly Baby Cheaper Dad Light Sears
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
BILL WATTERSON

Hate Point Stories Thinking
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
BILL WATTERSON

Beautiful Life Success

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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