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Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.

Bill Watterson

[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Looks Scrabble Vowels
Calvin: Look, a dead bird! Hobbes: It must’ve hit a window. Calvin: Isn’t it beautiful? It’s so delicate. Sighhh… once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Beautiful Grow Up Thinking
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
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
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
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
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
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
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm’s Thermonuclear League of Liberty.
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Class League Superhero
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
Calvin:”It says here that ‘religion is the opiate of the masses.’…what do you suppose that means?” Television: “…it means that Karl Marx hadn’t seen anything yet
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Mean Opiates Television
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander

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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