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Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

Bill Watterson

In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Culture Excess Good Life
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
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
Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Art Deconstruction Needs Offering Sometimes
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
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
When birds burp, it must taste like bugs.
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Bird Bugs Taste
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Autopsy Bigs Mouths People
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! …Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.
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Enough Undead Zombie
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
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

Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.

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