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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

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Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce. Calvin: We need more special effects and dance numbers.
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Dance Hard Maybe Number Special Tell
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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Country Kings Mom Nice People Think
With each decision, we tell ourselves and the world who we are. Think about what you want out of this life, and recognize that there are many kinds of success.
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Decision Kind Ourselves Recognize
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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Pigs Riding Three
Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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Bad Helping Mood
That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
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Problem Science Trying Unimaginable
I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Allowed Hello Rattle Say Stop Swear Words
It’s gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, “Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy.”
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Art Gratifying People Someone Write Writing
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
So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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Esteem Expectations Secret Self
What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocket ship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ’em?
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Point Rockets Ships Wearing
It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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Incinerated People Religious
They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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Around Figures Hang Right Secret Tricks
It’s going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn’t know anything but what it’s seen on TV.
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Generation Running World
All the new media will inevitably change the look, function, and maybe even the purpose of comics, but comics are vibrant and versatile, so I think they’ll continue to find relevance one way or another. But they definitely won’t be the same as what I grew up with.
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Looks Media 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

I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

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I knew you’d win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming “Aaaaaaaaaaaa”, then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it’s just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life!

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