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What 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!

Bill Watterson

It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
BILL WATTERSON

Grow Up Ideas People
Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Delusion Faces Life People Preposterous
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
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
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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People Relate Related
Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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Pigs Riding Three
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
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Country Kings Mom Nice People Think
But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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Demand Kind Sacrifice
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Actually Artist Quality Smoke Tell
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

What 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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What 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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