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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.

Bill Watterson

You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Congratulation Cynically Expect Manipulate Nothing Taught
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
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
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Beautiful Life Success
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Art Deconstruction Needs Offering Sometimes
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
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Footstep Important Made Matter Precious
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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Guy Humorous Look Thinking
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Homework Negotiation Procrastinating Skills Use
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Funny Inspirational Sarcastic
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
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Inspirational Nature Stars
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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Fantasies Head Realistically Since

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