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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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Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Ignorant Men Risk
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
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Calvin: Sometimes when I’m talking, my words can’t keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we can think faster than we speak? Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.
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Speaking Talking Thinking
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
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.
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Beans Place Someday Stupid Thinking
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Refuse Wonder World
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
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

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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