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Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

Bill Watterson

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
I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!
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Around Circle Hobbies Know Screaming
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
You know, maybe we don’t need enemies.” “Yeah, best friends aree about all I can take.
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Enemy Maybe Needs Take Yeah
We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
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Allow Current History Need Prejudices Versions
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
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Command Information Thorough Useless
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
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Funny Inspirational Sarcastic
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Drawing Reality Writing
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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Hate Kids Like
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
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
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted

Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement.

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