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.
BILL WATTERSONYou know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.
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And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It’s hard to charge admission without a gate.
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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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We don’t devote enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!
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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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Things are never quite as scary when you’ve got a best friend.
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Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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As “Calvin and Hobbes” went on, the writing pushed the drawings into greater complexity.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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From now on, I’ll connect the dots my own way.
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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It’s surprising how hard we’ll work when the work is done just for ourselves.
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