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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.

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
What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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Cheat Game Idiotic Lose Play Sneaky Some Undermanned
Hobbes: Do you think there’s a God? Calvin: Well, somebody’s out to get me!
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Hobbes Thinking Wells
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
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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Detours Failure Resources Wells
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
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’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
Animals aren’t conditional about friendships. Animals like you just the way you are. They listen to your problems, they comfort you when you’re sad, and all they ask in return is a little kindness.
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Animal Ask Friendship Kindness Problem
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
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light

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