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I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.

Bill Watterson

Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Cat Nightmare Psycho
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Desire Life Positive
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
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
Scientific Progress goes boink?
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Hobbes Progress Scientific Progress
You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Congratulation Cynically Expect Manipulate Nothing Taught
Suddenly, we realize our time in here is fleeting. Is our quick experience here pointless?
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Experience Pointless Suddenly Time
If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
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
[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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Definitions Desk Library Needs Reference
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
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
Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough

I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.

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