Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
BILL WATTERSONCalvin: They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Hobbes.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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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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My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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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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It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Calvin: Why are you crying mom? Mom: I’m cutting up an onion. Calvin: It must be hard to cook if you anthrpomorphisize your vegetables.
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The way Calvin’s brain is wired, you can almost hear the fuses blowing.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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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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Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other.
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It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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County library? Reference desk, please. Hello? Yes, I need a word definition. Well, that’s the problem.
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For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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I don’t enjoy lettering very much, but that’s the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
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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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