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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.

Bill Watterson

I suppose if we couldn’t laugh at things that don’t make sense, we couldn’t react to a lot of life.
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Comic Existentialism Laughing Strips
Hobbes: How come we play war and not peace? Calvin: Too few role models.
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Peace Play War
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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Afford Ignorant Knowledge Least Paralyzing
Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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People Relate Related
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Detours Motivational Truth
Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I’m not sure man needs the help.
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Believe Evil Men
I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
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Aggerations Character Expression Moving
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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Careers Happy Person
Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Cat Nightmare Psycho
A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Color Crayon Order Perfect Pointy
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Life

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