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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.

Bill Watterson

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
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Culture Excess Good Life
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
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough
I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Adulthood Growing Thinking
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Hobbies Jobs Secrets
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Graduation Real World
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking

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