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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.

Bill Watterson

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
You mix a bunch of ingredients, and once in a great while, chemistry happens.
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Chemistry Design Ingredients
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
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
Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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Comforting Few Late Less
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.
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Body School Spirit
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
Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Cat Nightmare Psycho
I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
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Fairness Favors World
My whole problem is that my lips move when I think.
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Lips Moving Thinking
Once it’s too late, you appreciate what a miracle life is.
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Appreciate Late Miracle
I tell you all this because it’s worth recognizing that there is no such thing as an overnight success.
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Detours Ideas Recognizing Success Trying
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
If you’ve ever compared a film to a novel it’s based on, you know the novel gets bludgeoned. It’s inevitable, because different media have different strengths and needs, and when you make a movie, the movie’s needs get served.
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Different Inevitable Media Needs
I’ve been amazed at how one idea leads to others if I allow my mind to play and wander.
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Amazed Ideas Mind Wander

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