Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
BILL WATTERSONIt’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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I try to make everyone’s day a little more surreal.
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My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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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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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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You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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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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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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Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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I don’t think you’ve ever invited me to… Calvin’s Mom: Calvin, what are you doing? Calvin: Nothing, Mom. Go away. Calvin’s Mom: You’re contagious! You can’t have anyone over to play!
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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The strips I admire go farther than a gag a day, and take us into a special world.
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That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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