It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
BILL WATTERSONWhat a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn’t want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you’d cheat!
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Calvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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I’d like to see cartoonists measuring their work by higher standards than how many papers their strips are in and how much money they make.
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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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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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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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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