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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

Bill Watterson

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
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Congratulation Cynically Expect Manipulate Nothing Taught
That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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Bad Perseverance Remarkable Worse
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
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Football Sports Thinking
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
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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Higher Paper Standards
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Loopholes Pubbawup
Barney’s Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said “Eat your peas.” Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney’s Mom never found out where he’d gone, Cause Barney didn’t tell her. T
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Dad Mom Peas Plan Sorry
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
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing

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