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I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.

Bill Watterson

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
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Snow Winning
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Calvin: ME TARZAN! KING OF JUNGLE! Suzy: Nice underpants. Does your mom know you’re over here like this? Calvin:…I don’t think Jane EVER said that to Tarzan.
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Country Kings Mom Nice People Think
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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Battle Disrespect Drama InterAction
Hold it. You know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see the three bears eat the three little pigs, and then the bears join up with the big bad wolf and eat Goldilocks and Little Red Riding Hood! Tell me a story like that, OK?
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Pigs Riding Three
Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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Day Seize Throttle Tomorrow
Life is full of surprises, but never when you need one.
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Life Needs Surprise
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
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 don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Adulthood Growing Thinking
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
Does anything we say or do in here really matter? Have we done anything important? Have we been happy? Have we made the most of these precious few footsteps?
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Footstep Important Made Matter Precious
I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Idea Packing Percent Prostituted
You’ve taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
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Congratulation Cynically Expect Manipulate Nothing Taught
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
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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Little Surreal Trying
Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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Looks Other Real Zombie
The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that’s even worse
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Hobbies Jobs Secrets
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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Forest Intelligent Reading Thinking
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

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