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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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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Demand Ecstasy Enough
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
I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Allowed Hello Rattle Say Stop Swear Words
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
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
Calvin: The more you know, the harder it is to take decisive action. Once you are informed, you start seeing complexities and shades of gray.
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Ignorant Men Risk
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
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
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I’d say our afternoon just got booked solid!
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Humorous Running Solid Water
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media Thinking
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
Leader, bandits at 2 o’clock! Roger; it’s only 1:30 now-what’ll I do ’til then?
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Clock Funny Leader Roger
I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
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Littles Nice People
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
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

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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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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