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Bill Watterson

If your knees aren’t green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
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Examine Fun Garden Life
Every artist learns through imitation, but I rather doubt the aim of these things is artistic development.
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Artist Doubt Taken Talking
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Admission Anyone Exciting Gate More
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
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
Like delicate lace, so the threads intertwine, oh, gossamer web of wond’rous design! Such beauty and grace wild nature produces… Ughh, look at that spider suck out that bug’s juices!
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Design Grace Produce Spiders
Since September it’s just gotten colder and colder. There’s less daylight now, I’ve noticed too. This can only mean one thing – the sun is going out. In a few more months the Earth will be a dark and lifeless ball of ice. Dad says the sun isn’t going out.
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Dad Dark Daylight Mean Truth
Reality continues to ruin my life.
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Funny Inspirational Life
From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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Conformity Connect Dots Way
Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist – how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Drugs Missing Rooms Trashed
I’m learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life…procrastinating and rationalizing.
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Country Friendship People Rationalizing Real Skills
I’ll bet my autopsy reveals my mouth is too big.
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Autopsy Bigs Mouths People
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
Everyone knows that! Hobbes: I’m looking it up. Calvin: You do, and I’ll look up that 12-letter word you played with all the Xs and Js! Hobbes: What’s your score for ZQFMGB? Calvin: 957.
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Everyone Knows Letter Played Score Word
The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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Brain Hobbies Way
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
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Culture Excess Good Life
Even when you look for it, you’re never prepared for it.
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Looks never Prepared
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Beautiful Life Success
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
I asked mom if I was a gifted child. She said they certainly wouldn’t have paid for me.
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Children Mom Motivational
If you can’t control your peanut butter, you can’t expect to control your life.
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Butter Control Funny Life Peanut
My likely historical significance is a terrible burden. ~ Calvin
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Burden Historical Terrible
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Clever Funny Time
At school, new ideas are thrust at you every day. Out in the world, you’ll have to find your inner motivation to seek for new ideas on your own.
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Day Every Ideas Motivation New School

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