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Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.

Bill Watterson

That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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Everyone Knows Letter Played Score Word
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Good Luck Lucky Rockets
Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Courage Different Everything Lonely Pretty
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
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
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
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
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Long Memories Outside School Successful Term
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
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
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Cooties Figured Happened Hobbies Love

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