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Someday, I’d like to meet that little boy… and tell him the awful TRUTH ABOUT THIS PLACE!! Calvin’s Dad: Calvin, be quiet and eat the stupid Lima beans.

Bill Watterson

Good friends are hard to come by… I need more money.
BILL WATTERSON

Good Friend More Money Needs
I know the world isn’t fair, but why isn’t it ever unfair in my favor?
BILL WATTERSON

Fairness Favors World
That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
BILL WATTERSON

Being Country Differences Happiness Happy
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
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
There’s great potential for that which has yet to be fully mined.
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Fully Great Minded Potential
Boy, there’s nothing worse than an inscrutable omen.
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Boys Inscrutable Omen
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
It’s psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I’ll get a saw.
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Lobotomy Needs Saws
I’ve always tried to make the strip animated, even when the characters aren’t moving, with expressions or perspectives or some sort of exaggeration.
BILL WATTERSON

Aggerations Character Expression Moving
Do you feel lonely? I don’t have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams. You know what’s weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything’s different.
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Courage Different Everything Lonely Pretty
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, …and he’s in prison… I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.
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Envy Successful Years
I liked things better when I didn’t understand them.
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Liked Thing Understand
I’m a misunderstood genius.” “What’s misunderstood?” “Nobody thinks I’m a genius.
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Genius Misunderstood Thinking
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

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