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I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.

Bill Watterson

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
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
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Autopsy Bigs Mouths People
It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what’s cool.
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Grow Up Ideas People
The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.
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Refuse Wonder World
Everybody I know fails the acid test of friendship.
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Acid Failing Tests
In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Art Book Comics Hands
It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Generation Running World
So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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Graduation Real World
If you can’t win by reason, go for volume.
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Reason Volume Winning
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 will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Failure Headed Resources Success Truth
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

I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.

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