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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.

Bill Watterson

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
I’ve got plenty of common sense! I just choose to ignore it.
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Common Ignore Plenty Sense
I let my mind wander and it didn’t come back.
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Bumper Funny Mind Sticker Wander
There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them.
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Different Gatekeepers Gone Prospects Voice
As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever.
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Congratulations Forever Long
History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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Direction Events Knowable Order Prejudice
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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Car Mind Running
It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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Done Hard Surprising
I’M SIGNIFICANT!!! … Say’s the dust speck.
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Dust Say Significant Specks
It’s not denial. I’m just selective about the reality I accept.
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Beautiful Life Success
Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where’s your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I’m yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet.
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Boys Kids Resources Scary Supposed
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
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Architect Form Function
MOMMMM, I’m thirsty… What’s this, just water?
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Mom Thirsty Water
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
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life… I don’t want the issue of Hobbes’s reality settled by a doll manufacturer.
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Issues Reality Special
You know, sometimes kids get bad grades in school because the class moves too slow for them. Einstein got D’s in school. Well guess what, I get F’s!!!
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Funny Guess Moving School

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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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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