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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

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
Isn’t it sad how some people’s grip on their lives is so precarious that they’ll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
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Delusion Faces Life People Preposterous
Problems often look overwhelming at first. The secret is to break problems into small, manageable chunks. If you deal with those, you’re done before you know it.
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Done Looks Secret
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
It’s a cruel season that makes you get ready for bed while it’s light out.
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Light Sleep Summer
Buttons … check. Dials … check. Switches … check. Little colored lights … check.
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Buttons Funny Light
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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Fun Real Smug Wisely
I don’t think I’d have been in such a hurry to reach adulthood if I’d known the whole thing was going to be ad-libbed.
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Adulthood Growing Thinking
Reading goes faster if you don’t sweat comprehension.
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Faster Reading Sweat
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
I’m killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.
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Happiness Inspirational Life
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Dark Imagine Thinking
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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Painting Solve Tigers Vans
I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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Mean Wonder
Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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Avenue Cynical Hollywood Poised Raised Scary

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.

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