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You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.

Bill Watterson

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
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
Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Butter Control Funny Life Peanut
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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Essence Surprise Surprising
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Actually Artist Quality Smoke Tell
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
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
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
I like maxims that don’t encourage behavior modification.
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Behavior Encouragement Friendship Modification
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
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
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential

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