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I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.

Bill Watterson

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
BILL WATTERSON

Detours Failure Resources Wells
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Cooties Figured Happened Hobbies Love
I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
BILL WATTERSON

Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
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
I’ve been interested in cartooning all my life. I read the comics as a kid, and I did cartoons for high school publications – the newspaper and yearbook and soon. In college, I got interested in political cartooning and did political cartoons.
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Kids Publication School Yearbook
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
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
I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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Interesting Laughing Life Track
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
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Amazed Ideas Mind Wander
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
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
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

I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.

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