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I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

Bill Watterson

The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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Admire Special World
God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Accomplish Funny Life Motivational Nothing
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Liked Thing Understand
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
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
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
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
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Fun Giving Hilarious
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
I’m learning skills I will use for the rest of my life by doing homework…procrastinating and negotiation.
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Homework Negotiation Procrastinating Skills Use
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
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
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Autopsy Bigs Mouths People
With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Decision Kind Ourselves Recognize
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Enjoy School Smock Sunday
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
[Calvin, who has the chicken pox, calls Susie on the telephone.] Susie: Hello? Calvin: Hi, Susie! It’s me, Calvin! I was wondering if you’d like to come over and play. Susie: Why, sure! Boy,
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Dad Letting Mom Wondering
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
Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.
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Creating Good Life Thinking
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying

I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.

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