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I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.

Bill Watterson

There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Fun Giving Hilarious
The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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Celebrities Class Common Ideas People
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a ‘possum stuck in your collar?
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Faces People Possums
I would turn out rough idea after rough idea, and he would veto eighty percent of them. I pretty much prostituted myself for six months but I couldn’t please him, so he sent me packing.
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Idea Packing Percent Prostituted
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
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
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary
Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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Invention Mother Motherhood
Yakka foob mog. Grug pubbawup zink wattoom gazork. Chumble spuzz. I love loopholes.
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Loopholes Pubbawup
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
BILL WATTERSON

Genius Misunderstood Thinking
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
You have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it’s going to come in handy all the time.
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Army Handy Knife Swiss Time
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
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

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