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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

Bill Watterson

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
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Liked Thing Understand
I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Amazed Ideas Mind Wander
Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Boys Kids Resources Scary Supposed
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Car Mind Running
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
A day can really slip by when you’re deliberately avoiding what you’re supposed to do.
BILL WATTERSON

Avoiding Hobbies Slips
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
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
BILL WATTERSON

Looks Media Thinking
Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?
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Ignorance Learning Waste

A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.

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