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I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.

Bill Watterson

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
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
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Admire Special World
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
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
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
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth

I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.

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