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I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

Bill Watterson

I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word ‘booger’ in a newspaper comic strip.
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Firsts Hobbes Use
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
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Funny Inspirational Sarcastic
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world.
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Funny Inspirational Witty
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
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
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Good Friend More Money Needs
We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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Decision Desire Motivational Ourselves Thinking
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
Although I’m certainly glad cartoons are finally getting some respect as an art, I’m fairly ambivalent to see cartooning as a legitimate academic offering. If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.
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Art Deconstruction Needs Offering Sometimes
Hello Dad! It is now three in the morning. Do you know where I am?
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Dad Morning Three
One of the jokes I really like is that the fantasies are drawn more realistically than reality, since that says a lot about what’s going on in Calvin’s head.
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Fantasies Head Realistically Since
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
Know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Change Different Funny Life
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Mean Wonder
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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Accomplish Happier Happy Meaning Trouble
I’m related to people I don’t relate to.
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People Relate Related
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
Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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Disappointment Friendship Harder Swearing
I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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Hate Point Stories Thinking
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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Lettering Reflection Way Writing
My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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Problem Tiny Trouble
I like my smock. You can tell the quality of the artist by the quality of his smock. Actually, I just like to say smock. Smock smock smock smock smock smock.
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Actually Artist Quality Smoke Tell
On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Cultural Disintegrating Impact Less Money

I wonder if you can refuse to inherit the world.

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