I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
BILL WATTERSONSo, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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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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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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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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