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

Bill Watterson

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
Now if a joke is in bad taste or it’s not funny, okay, that’s awhole different thing, but how you craft a joke is really what the writer’s job is, and I don’t think that technique should be subject to any editorial constraints.
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Craft Different Editorial Joke Taste Technique
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Loopholes Pubbawup
Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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Believe Evil Men
Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Cat Nightmare Psycho
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
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
Art has to keep moving and discovering to stay alive.
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Alive Art Moving
[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
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Liked Thing Understand
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
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing

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

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