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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.

Bill Watterson

I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Cooties Figured Happened Hobbies Love
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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Funny Future Humorous
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
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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Numbers Play Special
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Football Sports Thinking
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Around Circle Hobbies Know Screaming
Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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Envy Successful Years
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
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
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
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
We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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Funny Inspirational Science
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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Good Luck Lucky Rockets
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Firsts Hobbes Use
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Funny Guess Moving School
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
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
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
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
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
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Hobbies Jobs Secrets
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People

If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.

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